Chickenpox vaccine - Q Could you tell me the side effects of the new chickenpox vaccine, which doctors are now recommending for babies? - EH, Santa Fe, NM.

Pollution: It causes 30 per cent of all childhood illness - Our children are more susceptible than adults to pollutants in the environment, which could be having a damaging impact on their long-term health. Th...

It’s the environment: the cause of tourette’s syndrome may have been p - Tourette’s syndrome, which causes embarrassing nervous facial tics, has increased fourfold in the past 20 years. One study in Rochester, New York, fou...

Chickenpox outbreak despite high vaccination uptake - Chickenpox vaccination is now fairly widespread across the USA, with claims of 95 to 100 per cent effectiveness being made for it in the medical press...

Ear ache : jabs for all - Two new examples of medical overkill have been announced to tackle that major problem of childhood: otitis media, or middle ear infections. ...

Killed polio jabs: new delays - America's top health officials have delayed the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) even though they know that the live version i...

Jabs behind polio outbreak - Although medicine has always pointed to polio as proof that vaccination works, worrying new findings from Romania indicate that the vaccine is actuall...

Booster jabs for diphtheria not effective - The diphtheria booster may be ineffective at least one fifth of the time, according to a new study. ...