Cheyenne walks into the room, beams from ear to ear and turns to embrace the girl closest to her. She laughs and chats for a moment before moving on to greet another friend in the group of about 40 adolescent girls. She looks like any other friendly, happy child, but then, there is the subtle tapping of her hand, averted ... Read More »
He smiles back at a reporter as she smiles and mouths the word “hello.” It’s an expression that belies both his official mental status — he’s believed to be non-responsive — and his circumstance. Read More »
The reasons parents in California are choosing not to immunize their kids today is partly due to what they find on the Internet, including a study that incorrectly linked vaccines to autism. Read More »
By Joanne Faryon/inewsource They call him Garage for short. His full name is Sixty-Six Garage — after the place the van he was traveling in was taken after it crashed near the Mexican border about 100 miles east of San Diego in June 1999. Or so the story goes. No one knows for sure, but it’s the lore ... Read More »
Is a collective amnesia over the horrors of measles, polio and whooping cough responsible for fewer vaccinations? Read More »
Immunologists are raising the alarm about what they say is our collective amnesia over the damage these diseases have wrought in the past. Read More »
With the disease making a comeback, here's what you should probably know... Read More »
A change in the whooping cough vaccine may be contributing to more teens getting the illness. Read More »
So far this year, 1,855 positive cases have been recorded in San Diego County, with more than 80 percent of the people up to date on their whooping cough shots. Read More »
Another woman, this time from Northern California, believes a John Doe who has been on life support for more than 14 years at the Villa Coronado Skilled Nursing Facility may be her missing brother. She is the second person in the past three months to come forward, believing he is a lost relative, and the seventh to make such a ... Read More »
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