All three of my kids had the flu and strep throat in the last 6 weeks. It felt like we were back in preschool. Other than missing Christmas, New Year’s, a few birthdays and collectively a couple weeks of school it was all so minor. No one contracted pneumonia. No one got dehydrated and passed out. No …
What portion of the US federal budget goes to foreign countries? Americans always rank foreign aid expenditures as one of the biggest if not the biggest chunk of the budget. A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 4 in 10 think it ranks as either the #1 or #2 largest area of spending. People routinely …
Shot@Life’s Peg Willingham, right, visiting a clinic in Honduras Spent the first part of the week at the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life Summit in Washington, D.C. The children’s health event drew together women and a few men from social media, education, medicine and other organizations. The cause? Promoting access to life-saving vaccines in developing countries, vaccines for that the price of two large pizzas …
A few years ago my then 3-year old started having trouble breathing during the night. Not just uncomfortable can’t breath-through-stuffy-nose stuff. The real thing. What had been a simple cold just hours earlier turned into belabored, chest-heaving breaths that still haunt me. Ugh, those sucking, watery sounds. The diagnosis: Pneumonia. I’m still amazed at how rapidly he …