Sticking out from the crowd isn’t always fun. Just ask any kid, especially one in middle school. Taking an unpopular stand, joining a weird club or merely looking different can be uncomfortable, painful even. Trying to fit in, trying for normal, can make life smoother in some ways. As a …
Imagine half the kindergarteners in the US dying from diseases we could prevent. Horrendous. Catastrophic. Over 1.5 million deaths would be unimaginable. Yet this is about how many kids die every year around the world from measles, polio, pneumonia and diarrhea, disease we can largely prevent by vaccines and for …
The media is gorging on the measles outbreak. Well it’s about time the media took measles seriously. I should be thankful after almost 15 years of bemoaning the media’s less than accurate coverage of vaccines and the thoroughly debunked link between the MMR and autism. Even in 2000 there were …
Measles at Disneyland? How did this happen? Shocked. In California? It’s not exactly magical how measles ended up at The Magic Kingdom. It’s not magic at all but a numbers game. A new study by health care provider Kaiser Permanente identifies clusters of “underimmunization” in Northern California, areas in which a significant percentage of …
Ah, the best parenting books of the year. Anyone can find those on Amazon in two seconds. I’ll spare you those important works. Instead what you’ll find on the annual Momma Data list aren’t necessarily the most popular or well-received parenting tomes of 2014. A few are well-known names or titles …