Ep. 37: Madi Survived Influenza, Barely
Shelle Allen's healthy, happy daughter, Madi, was 12 years old when she asked to be picked up from a birthday party. After a day, she…
Seriously, It’s Not Too Late to Get a Flu Shot
I've always felt that National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW, which is this week, falls strangely late in the year. The CDC advised everyone get their…
Ep. 36: Protect Me Later: Alternative Vaccine Schedules
We know that parents refusing vaccines is an area of concern for all of us, but more frequently, parents are asking doctors to give vaccines…
Ep. 35: What do you do with a vaccine hesitant parent?
When the good folks at WithinReach in Washington state invited us to come talk at their immunization summit, we were more than thrilled. Recording a…
Ep. 34: The Champion of Community Immunity in California
Dr. Richard Pan has been a champion for community immunity his entire career, from his beginnings as a resident in Pittsburgh to his work in…
The Vaccine Trial
When I was pregnant I received a letter from the Oxford Vaccine Group asking me to enroll my unborn child in a meningococcal vaccine trial…
Ep. 33: Are You Smarter Than an MD? Play This Trivia Game!
It's still National Immunization Awareness Month, which means Vax Talk is still having Game Show episodes all of August. Melody Butler, of Nurses Who Vaccinate…
Before They Were Preventable
When I was eleven years old I learned why my maternal grandmother and my mother have always been vehemently pro-vaccine. It was the day I…
Vaccines, Baseball, and Da Vinci? NIAM-riffic.
It's National Immunization Awareness Month! Continuing with our GAME SHOW theme, we invited Keith Law to play Offit, Wakefield, or Dan Brown. I first met…
Troll or Be Trolled
You've seen the social media posts--people purposely trying to get on your nerves about vaccines. Sometimes, though, trolling is actually satirizing for a cause. We…