As if there simply hasn’t been enough drama, opinion or celebrity-mom tweet-hating over vaccines in the last decade, The New York Times has thrown vaccines up for debate once more, this time in their Room for Debate feature. No not that debate. Technically this debate is not over the efficacy …
TIME OUT FOR SOCIAL GOOD It’s World Polio Day. It offers not just a temporary reprieve from our media-weary souls but an opportunity to recognize the many international efforts aimed at ending polio. It’s a chance to help kids and families on the other side of the world. It’s also …
A new study in Pediatrics finds parents living outside Seattle do indeed get by on a little help from their friends. At least when it comes to figuring out whether or how to schedule their young children’s vaccinations. Because this is 2013 please note we longer talk simply about friends but our social networks. Can you guess who parents trusted …
Your kid wakes up with a fever, runny nose, watery eyes, a cough. No biggie, just another virus. You call the school and curse the miscreant next door spewing germs all your son. A couple days later your son is still at home and now white legions have popped up in his mouth. You call the pediatrician who this time does not …
Today we have a guest post about the United Nations Foundation’s Shot At Life Campaign, a cause dear to my soft skeptical heart. I’ve said my piece about kids dying from diarrhea before but Momma Data friend, public health guru and now Shot At Life Champion, Andrea tells why she ventured to …