*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on February 1, 2018.   Separating Flu Fact From Fiction     Even though we’ve covered this territory before on The PediaBlog, today we’ll let family physician Gretchen Lasalle, M.D. separate fact from...

*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on January 18, 2018.   No Opioid Rx For Coughs   Other than a nice warm bowl of chicken soup or a spoonful of honey (for children older than one year of age), parents will find that the numerous...

Influenza Update – 2018-19 (2)

(CDC FluView)   100 years after the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed at least 50 million people worldwide, the 2018-2019 flu season is off to a rough start. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week that between October 1, 2018 and...

Influenza Update – 2018-19 (1)

(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)   As you can see in the map above, influenza activity through the first week of December was “slightly elevated” nationally and has been “minimal” in Pennsylvania so far this flu season....

*Flashback Friday*

This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on October 26, 2015.   Ask Us Anything   A mother emails: My son had a liver transplant, and is now immune-suppressed by his anti-rejection medication. He has been instructed to only receive the flu injection...