Doctor´s Tip: Immunizations are safe and important
(WorldNews Health)

The original version of this column ran in the PI on Nov. 14, 2017. Recently, immunizations and lack thereof have been in the news. Nicolette Toussaint recently wrote a column in the Sopris Sun about how she developed severe, permanent hearing loss as a complication of childhood measles - a disease that is prevented by immunizations that have been developed since she was a child ­- but which is making a resurgence due to parents failing to immunize their children. It´s been said that instead of a health care system America has an expensive disease management system - we wait until preventable diseases occur and then spend billions of dollars managing them. There is one shining example of how...