Traveling With Chronic Illness

  Now that most schools have adjourned for the summer, families are starting to take their long-anticipated vacations away from home. Whether you are planning on driving to the beach for some sun and sand, or flying to another city to meet with family or explore...

Zika – Let The Games Begin

Last winter, an obscure virus was making headlines for causing microcephaly and other birth defects in newborns in Brazil and other South American and Central American countries. We reviewed some Zika facts on The PediaBlog in January: It is spread by the same two...

Philadelphia In July, 1776

On her school field trips to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, our Travel Ready M.D., Dr. Sarah Kohl, imagined what colonial life was like: As a child, I really didn’t understand the intrigue and danger associated with creation of our government; I was more...

The Most Common Things

    The most common things occur most commonly. If there is one thing medical students learn on the first day of their third-year clinical rotations, this is it. The attending will introduce a young student to a patient in her clinic: “This young man...

Zika Virus

In 2014, PediaBlog readers were introduced to a funny-sounding virus that was making people sick with high fevers, joint and muscle aches, headaches, and fever. Chikungunya — a mosquito-borne virus — appeared to have jumped from its known locations in...