Based on the findings of Britain’s General Medical Council, the journal had no choice but to retract the twelve-year-old research and I agree with their retraction.

Dr. Jay’s responds to Dr. Rahul Parikh, 04/20/09

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the [...]

Editor@People.com Your article (“Desperate Measures” People, 9/27/04) mentions that the flu shot contains about the same amount of mercury as 2.5 ounces of [...]

Meningitis is also one of the best headline-grabbing diseases. The new (January 2001) recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics to vaccinate all [...]

“I no longer give or recommend the MMR vaccine.  I think that the risks exceed the benefits.  Obviously, discuss this with your doctor [...]

California declared a pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic this week. The California Department of Public Health reports 910 confirmed cases, including the death of [...]

PBS presented an unbalanced view of vaccines which cheated the viewers out of an opportunity for education and information.

We’re a month into the school year and it’s the time of year when it seems our kids are spending more days sick than well.

I am very much opposed to the routine vaccination schedule in the U.S. There are too many vaccines given too early in a [...]

There seems to be a great deal of confusion about vaccinations and the requirements for school entrance. Actually, this is very simple: Many states’ laws require that children receive the recommended immunizations prior to school entry or that parents sign a waiver stating that all or some of the vaccines have not been given because of medical, personal or religious reasons.

I am a pediatrician in private practice and am therefore consulted about one child at a time rather than about the effects of [...]

If I were to be invited to participate in a consultation about public health or global vaccine policy, I would readily state that [...]

Dr. Jay’s response to L.A. Times 3/29/09 Article on Risks of not Vaccinating California Children

The article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times 3/29/09 has generated a lot of discussion, and I was asked to respond. Unvaccinated children [...]