Tag: childhood vaccinations
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In MA, Doctors’ Day becomes rallying point for health care reform
While Doctors’ Day has traditionally celebrated physicians’ contributions — specically the date of the first use of general anesthesia in surgery by Dr. Crawford W. Long on March 30, 1842 — this year Massachusetts physicians are redefining it as a…
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Examining Marblehead school vaccine rates
As controversy over childhood vaccinations rages nationwide, student immunization rates in Marblehead have remained steady over the past three years, with most schools reporting 90% or more of pupils have gotten all vaccines required by state law. Dr. Thomas Massaro,…