In last week’s Congress Blog, an article entitled Cost vs. Public Health expressed concerns over the current vaccine approval system in the United States. The author suggests that the current system is “stifling...
I can still hear my grandmother yelling “Put your coat on, before you catch pneumonia!” I heard this repeatedly throughout my childhood. But eventually, I realized that a coat was not the best defense...
If you’re a mom, you know. There are a million things to consider when you discover that you are expecting. If you live in the United States you probably have...
Suddenly it’s November and the holidays will soon be upon us. People will be traveling across the country, and sometimes even across the globe, to spend the time with...
Every Child By Two (ECBT) recently offered an informative webinar entitled “Autism 101 for Immunization Advocates”. You may be asking, why would an immunization organization like Every Child By...
I have always admired people who work in the field of healthcare. Not just because of the knowledge that they have acquired and use to help others, but for reasons...
There has certainly been a great deal of media coverage regarding yesterday’s vote from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in...
It’s not often enough that we recognize the many important accomplishments made in regards to childhood immunizations over recent decades. Just last week, colleagues traveled from far and wide...
I am elated to hear about a great hope for the future in the fight against malaria. I just read several articles, including Elizabeth Weise’s article in the USA TODAY that announced “Malaria...
Last month, in a post entitled The Villian is a Virus, I wrote about an event I attended in which a special panel of experts from the Centers for Disease...