There was a blog, which has now disappeared but is described here in another blog post, where a mother describes administering Miracle Mineral Solution baths to her son and is confused when he subsequently develops a fear of taking baths.

As heard from a classmate who was a medical laser specialist (basically someone who moves the laser from office to office and makes sure its working properly) when doctors are lasering off genital warts they're required to wear masks. There was a high incidence of head and neck cancers resulting from HPV among doctors…

As someone with recently diagnosed vaginismus - child sized speculum and lidocaine gel. Your appointments take longer because the gel has to be applied in stages with a wait between to let it take effect, but my new gyno did this and this is the first time I've been able to have a pap smear without nearly screaming.

My mother knew at least one person who ended up in leg braces from polio and she and her siblings all dealt with whooping cough, so she made sure I had every single vaccine that was offered (except Gardasil, she wasn't convinced on that one but I was over 18 by then and it wasn't her decision anymore). I had both…

There's also a sense of community with some the more survivable cancers just because you have survivors to support you. Hell, there's entire months swathed in your cancer's ribbon color to show how much the world supports you and the research effort to defeat your cancer. But when you're given a terminal diagnosis…

Thank you for being a voice of reason in all this. The only other person with an ASD I've heard speak on this is Jake Crosby, and he's just nuts.

The influenza vaccine will prevent infections from the influenza virus, not anything else. The disease it prevents is characterized by rapid onset (sometimes taking only a few hours) fever and fatigue and can take months to recover from. We tend to lump any kind of sneezing or sniffles in with influenza because…