Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Measles is again on the rise – 127 people in 15 states have been confirmed to have measles. And, all of them were unimmunized against measles. Foreign travel was the initiator of the outbreak – people acquired the measles in [...]
Yesterday on NECN’s HealthWeek, Karen Swensen and I talked about the recent CDC study that showed that only 28% of kids were properly immunized. With the recent rise in Measles, this study certainly has us all asking a lot of [...]
In the wake of the confusing story last week of the Georgia family who was awarded money from the vaccine compensation program, comes this USA Today story with the headline “Vaccine use wipes out Hib meningitis in Uganda”. The timing [...]
With the news this week that ProQuad seems cause an increase in fever-related seizures, many parents are now left wondering how to schedule their child care visits. Are more visits needed if they separate out the shots? ProQuad is a [...]
As a parent, what would you tell your children if they worked endlessly to justify a questionable action to you? You’d likely tell them, give it up. Sometimes we have to admit “we were wrong”. That is what ABC should [...]
Well, it didn’t take long for headlines from yesterday’s list to make the news…hours in fact! And, just as the KidsHealth editors predicted, the list has already grown! But, that’s the nature of child health…here’s three headlines that caught my [...]
That’s what the Spice girls were asking when some of their collective herd came down with the age old childhood illness. But, it’s not just in Hollywood that these “pox parties” are popping up. Before you let yourself get convinced [...]
This story is not too different than Any Town, USA. A school district sets requirements for immunizations – for example, provide proof of hepatitis and chicken pox immunizations by early in the school year. Parents who failed to comply were [...]
Two interesting headlines caught my eye today on two totally unrealted topics. First, the bad news. On the footsteps of the latest toy news comes another headlines of more tainted toys from China. According to the Associated Press, “RC2 Corp.’s [...]
How could you not be alarmed by yesterday’s alarming headline on Yahoo! Health News: FDA: Rotavirus vaccine may harm infants. No need to worry or call your pediatrician if your infant falls into the age group receiving RotaTeq. This is [...]
