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Call to arms: how lessons from history could reduce the ‘immunisation gap’

25 Apr 2016

A rise in the number of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases has highlighted the growing trend for parents not to have their child vaccinated...

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A Clinical Center physician prepares an injection for a young patient

Polio provocation – the health debate that refused to go away

03 Sep 2013

For much of the 20th century, health professionals were locked in debate about one possible cause of paralytic polio. Some argued that the viral...

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