Last week New York City health officials announced that there was a measles outbreak in Manhattan and the Bronx. So far they have identified 16 cases of measles, representing...
Vaccines do more than just boost our immune system against dangerous bacteria, viruses or parasites. They can also help prevent and treat various types of cancer. In acknowledgement of...
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...
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...
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...
Every day, all around the world, infants, children and adults are getting vaccinated. If we were to calculate the exact number of vaccines administered in just one given day, I’m certain...
The flu is predictably unpredictable. Each year we know it’s coming and yet people – sometimes even children – will fall ill and die. We just can’t predict when it will arrive, how...