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Does Vaccination Prevent Cancer?
Childhood vaccines may offer reduced odds of childhood cancer.
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Celebrating Prevention! NIIW 2011
Protecting babies from infectious diseases is a big deal around here, as evidenced by disease prevention taking up a chunk of space in our mission statement. National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW),...
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Vaccine Education Center
The science of vaccines can be . . . daunting. The lists of ingredients and potential side effects make us want to second guess ourselves and our children’s providers. We need to be sure we’re making...
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Just the Facts, Please
Usually, the facts are the facts, right? Maybe not. Everything depends on the language we use to frame a given issue. That might sound kind of dry, but take a look at this: Who would hire THAT...
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You and the Shingles Vaccine
Who should…and shouldn’t…get the shingles vaccine? The virus that causes chickenpox, varicella zoster, doesn’t confine its activity to childhood. For reasons that remain unclear, it can re-emerge in...
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It’s August – Get Immunized!
Are you aware of immunizations? You may think that as someone who has passed the childhood years, you’re finished with immunizations. August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and here at PKIDs,...
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A Thoughtful Choice
I remember lining up at school in the ‘60s to get vaccinated against smallpox and a few other diseases for which there were vaccines. I also remember the years when my brothers and I took turns at...
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Flu Shot Already?
It’s so easy to get flu vaccinations these days. My daughters and I were grocery shopping and we were immunized between the bacon and the frozen pizza aisles. OK, I confess I didn’t tell my 12-year-old...
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ECBT – Two Decades
Every Child By Two (ECBT) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Former First Lady of Arkansas Betty Bumpers started ECBT with two goals: “. . . [to] raise...
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Rebecca’s Son
(Christopher died from a devastating case of chickenpox. His mom, Rebecca, shared her son’s story until the day she died, and we’d like to share it with you. This is taken from testimony she gave to a...
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Healthcare Professionals: Thanks for Vaccinating Yourselves!
I like nurses and doctors and technicians and assistants and all the folks who, one way or another, try to keep me healthy. That needed to be said because, in a second, it’s going to seem like I don’t...
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NIIW 2013 – Resources for Vax Educators
It’s National Infant Immunization Week! We put out the call for infant vaccination resources that groups were prepared to share, and this is what we received. If you have any tools or resources you can...
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Universal Immunization Symbol
Good news! The universal immunization symbol is ready and available for use by all immunization advocates. It is designed for all immunization organizations and advocates to display as a way to show...
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I’m Immunized! (Pass it on!)
At PKIDs, we have seen the awful reality of children affected by preventable disease: horrible illnesses, hospitalizations, chronic infections, and sometimes death. We share our stories with the hope...
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Baby Armor
And now, a timely reminder from CDC: It’s easy for parents to think of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles or whooping cough as issues of the past, but we know that most of these diseases still...
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Flu – You Have a Choice
Kristi was a beautiful, intelligent elementary school teacher, and my only sibling. She was healthy, and ran or walked several miles many times a week. She was active in the community, supporting...
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Why We Talk About Immunizations
There are so many ways to prevent infections, I sometimes wonder why we spend the vast majority of our time talking about immunizations. Well, yesterday the CDC came out with data that are so...
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And The National Immunization Survey Says . . .
In 1994, the CDC began collecting information about the vaccination of children ages 19—35 months. They did this through a survey called the National Immunization Survey (NIS), and they’re still doing...
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