Hi everyone. Thanks for visiting Vaccinate Your Family’s Shot of Prevention blog. Our mission is to foster an open dialogue on the importance of vaccinations and prevention for the...
This important post is being published to highlight Preteens & Teens Week during National Immunization Awareness Month. Please take the time to talk to your child’s healthcare provider to...
By Erica DeWald, Director, Advocacy, Vaccinate Your Family Here at Vaccinate Your Family (VYF), we practice what we preach. That’s why I got both a Tdap and influenza vaccine...
After watching both my 73-year-old mother and my 18-year-old daughter suffer with shingles, I would do almost anything to avoid it. And last year, when a new and more...
Allyson is a 17 year-old high school student who is determined to put an end to HPV related cancers by encouraging her peers to use social media to ...
Emily was a college student when she called home complaining of a headache - 36 hours later she passed away due to serogroup B meningococcal disease, but her organ...
In these final days of 2017, we hope you will revisit the top ten posts from the past year and share them with others in your social networks. They address such pressing...
The words “just the flu” need to be eradicated from our lexicon. There’s no “just” about this. It was terrifying. It was the most helpless I’ve ever felt as a...
By Serese Marotta, Chief Operating Officer, Families Fighting Flu Today is a hard day for me – it’s been eight years since I lost my five-year-old son, Joseph, to...
Every Child By Two co-founder Betty Bumpers has dedicated her life to advocating for children’s health and has inspired others in her state and throughout the nation to continue...