By ECBT Executive Director, Amy Pisani Please Consider Supporting Every Child By Two’s Efforts This Holiday Season Whooping cough (pertussis) and influenza continue to take the lives of too...
It’s easy to understand why people take public health for granted. You simply can’t see the diseases that have been prevented, the hospitalizations that have been avoided or the lives...
Last month there was a great deal of concern regarding several meningitis outbreaks on college campuses. The first to really gain attention were the seven cases at Princeton University. While it is typical for meningitis...
This post was written by Melody Butler, a pediatric RN and mother of four. As a vocal vaccine advocate, Melody founded Nurses Who Vaccinate and is a Shot@Life Immunization...
It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week and it’s likely that some people haven’t received their flu shots yet. You should know that flu season has officially arrived and some states have already begun...
A few weeks ago I wrote about the fact that Katie Couric’s new daytime television show Katie was planning to air a segment about HPV vaccine. After hearing the proposed line-up for the show...
This guest post was provided by Text4baby, a service of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. With 99% of all text messages being read and 90% read within...
Every Child By Two Executive Director, Amy Pisani writes the following letter in consideration of #GivingTuesday. As Every Child By Two (ECBT) continues our partnership with the #GivingTuesday initiative, we...
This guest post was written by Jane Huston, a program coordinator for HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital and manager of the HealthMap Vaccine Finder, a project that aims to increase adult immunization...
Earlier this week, news reports started pouring in of a meningococcal outbreak among students at Princeton University. The number of cases and the lack of any direct connection among the...