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...
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...
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)...
When I began writing on this blog three and a half years ago, I had never had a face-to-face conversation with someone who I would’ve described as “anti-vaccine”. That’s not surprising really, since about 99% of...
The one thing that is certain about the flu is that it is extremely unpredictable. It’s impossible to predict the severity of the flu from patient to patient and...
Some of the data contained in this post has been updated. For a more recent review of the prevalence of HPV infection and more current data on the safety...
This morning, the University of Michigan released its C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. This national poll measures public opinion and perceptions regarding major health care issues...