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comment by mk
Just so you're aware, spacing out your kids' vaccine schedules officially makes you a part of the "anti-vax movement."

I can live with that if there's good reason for it. Which I would like to know more about, but I'm not getting much on PubMed.

It is my formal opinion that any product that requires a prescription to purchase should not be allowed to advertise.

It's also the formal opinion of every government in the World except for ours and New Zealand:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_marketing#To_use...

As an aside, for anyone that doubts the value of the chicken pox vaccine, they should talk to someone that has neuropathy due to shingles. My grandmother lived with excruciating pain for a decade. I'm glad I caught the chicken pox, although I was 18 and it was hell on earth.