Securing Investments in an LA Bioscience Hub Will Protect the Region’s Physical and Economic Health
If you have had your cholesterol tested, gotten a heart scan or been treated by paramedics, you have benefitted from research conducted at LA BioMed. But you may be unaware of the local research institute’s many contributions to improving healthcare. The same could be said of the entire biosciences industry in Los Angeles. San Diego […]
Investing in America’s Health
For more than 60 years, the researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) have been pioneering the medical advances that are saving lives and improving the health of people in the region and around the world. Little, if any, of this would be possible without the support of […]
Pseudoscience Plagues the Health of Our Nation
Many
Baby Boomers, who were spared leg braces and iron lungs thanks to polio
vaccines, were the first to eschew immunizations for their own children as part
of a misguided back-to-nature movement.
Today, sons and daughters of the Boomers are following a similar road.
Encouraged
by the admonitions of celebrities like Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, they
subscribe to the theory that childhood vaccinations can lead to autism, despite
scientists’ adamant repudiation of the only study to ever link the two and the
recent finding that the study was a fraud.
Celebrity-endorsed
pseudoscience has gained credibility via Internet websites and interactive
media, with pollsters now reporting that four in ten parents believe
vaccinations cause childhood autism and other illnesses.