by PediaBlog | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you missed the story in the news about the unvaccinated young man who, when turning 18 years old, defied his mother’s wishes and got himself immunized, Jamie Ducharme gets you caught up: Lindenberger, who said his mother is an anti-vaccine advocate who...
by PediaBlog | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I was a medical student in the mid-1980s, I was called down to the emergency department by the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases. When I arrived, a group of fellow students were huddled around a fairly frightened and shivering little girl who may have...
by PediaBlog | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
On his essential website, Vaxopedia, pediatrician Dr. Vincent Iannelli asks this question of those who would insist on delaying or refusing vaccines: If vaccines are associated with autism, then why don’t the counties with the highest immunization rates have...
by PediaBlog | Feb 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
For decades, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have dedicated time, money, and perseverance towards improving global health and education, and advocating for energy innovation and other solutions to the climate crisis. The couple —...
by PediaBlog | Feb 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
The results of a new study on the prevalence of pediatric mental health disorders and treatment should cause every American to sit up and take notice. Publishing in JAMA Pediatrics this month, researchers from the University of Michigan used a nationwide survey...
