vaccines

According to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study, one in four toddlers are improperly vaccinated. Missed doses or improperly timed ... Read More »

The safety of childhood vaccines has been a matter of debate for years now. I'll never forget having a conversation with a good friend of mine. She ... Read More »

Gardasil, if you've been living under a rock, is the relatively new vaccine meant to protect girls from HPV. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that ... Read More »

The new ABC show "Eli Stone" us under fire from the largest Pediatrician's group in the U.S. due to its portrayal of autism possibly being caused by ... Read More »

The human immune system's "memory' -- the rate at which it continues to protect us from invading organisms -- lasts much longer than many scientists ... Read More »

As the U.S. and other countries prepare for the next, coming wave of the flu, are the children in this nation (and others) being overlooked in terms ... Read More »

Autism has been in the media quite a bit in recent years, as the number of confirmed cases seems to have shot up. Now, either cases are really ... Read More »

Needles? Injections? Vaccinations? Er, no way. But with school starting in a few weeks (and my youngest heading to kindergarten), I've had nothing ... Read More »

It's not ready for human use yet, but researchers have genetically engineered a rice that carries the cholera vaccine. This is a big deal because many ... Read More »

Do childhood vaccines really contribute to autism in kids? That subject has been under debate for quite some time, and even though science says ... Read More »