Podcast: How Safe is Vaccination? Answers For Worried Parents

Here, in the second in a series of podcasts, Dr Ellen Clayton reviews findings of a landmark Institute of Medicine study on vaccine safety.¹ Dr Clayton, a coauthor of that study, offers information about specific vaccines that may be very useful to you when you answer questions from worried parents. Click here for Part 1.

Dr Clayton is Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University.

Here, in the second in a series of podcasts, Dr Ellen Clayton reviews findings of a landmark Institute of Medicine study on vaccine safety.¹ Dr Clayton, a coauthor of that study, offers information about specific vaccines that may be very useful to you when you answer questions from worried parents. Click here for Part 1.

Dr Clayton is Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University.

Reference:
1. Stratton K, Ford A, Rusch E, Clayton E. Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies—National Academies Press; 2011. www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13164. Accessed November 22, 2011.