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...
On November 7th, a congressional briefing, entitled “The Injustice of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)” was sponsored by “The Canary Party” and billed as a precursor to a...
This guest post was written by Melody Butler, BSN, RN, and pediatric nurse. As the founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate , Melody has received various national honors, including the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Immunity...
Last year, an immunization bill to help protect the children, schools and communities in California from vaccine preventable diseases was introduced to the State Assembly. This proposed bill (AB 2109)...
Statistics show that by age two, one in eight children were undervaccinated at some point in time due to parental decisions to delay or refuse certain vaccines. Despite the evidence that the infant...
There are a lot of reasons why I love vaccines, but most importantly it’s because they save lives. However, my appreciation of vaccines has also helped to elevate my appreciation...
Today I’ll be picking my children up from school and driving them to the local health department where we will receive our seasonal influenza vaccines. Within minutes, I expect we’ll be vaccinated and on our...