There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.

Your dollar cheeseburger isn't a dollar if you factor in what it's going to cost in health care.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.