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…
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…
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…
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…
Ep. 32.1: Stop the Presses! NIAM 2019
It's the first day of National Immunization Awareness Month, and we are all working with brand new themes this year. In celebration, we declared that…
Talking about Rotary’s End Polio Mission
Rotary International has worked for decades to deliver polio vaccines to the most remote corners of the world in order to eradicate polio permanently from the…
Dr. Offit Talks Measles
Thus far in 2019, the United States has experienced nearly 1,000 cases of measles--and we can expect more. But when can we expect the outbreaks…