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“Extensive research demonstrates that the MMR vaccine is safe and significantly reduces the risk of contracting measles, a disease that can lead to severe complications and death,” the pediatrics group said.

His practice had a dismissal policy long before the pediatrics academy said it was acceptable.

After leaving the military, Burkle became a medical polymath, qualified in five different specialties he felt would be necessary: emergency medicine, pediatrics, adolescent medicine, public health and psychiatry.

Fall-offs were seen in residency applications in other specialties that might be affected by abortion bans, such as pediatrics and family medicine.

One of these is immunologist Dr. Timothy Hand, associate professor of pediatrics and of immunology at the University of Pittsburgh.