by Natalie Kozma | Apr 24, 2017 | Personal Stories
I would describe myself as a fairly laid-back mom—or, at least, as laid-back as you can be when you’re a mom. I tend to follow the five-second rule when my 8-month-old son, Bodhi, drops a toy, and I have given up on lecturing my 4-year-old son, Miles, on the fact that...
by ivaccinate | Apr 7, 2017 | Personal Stories
Next week I’ll be hopping on a plane for an 11-hour ride to Europe with a strong-willed, 1 1/2-year-old toddler. A big concern is how to deal with the inevitable meltdowns. But my top priority before boarding is about my little girl’s health: Is she...
by ivaccinate | Apr 7, 2017 | Personal Stories
AUSTIN — Riki Graves remembers how scared she was when her daughter received a heart transplant at just 17 days old at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Her baby was the youngest person to ever receive a heart transplant at the hospital. Already fighting a...
by ivaccinate | Mar 26, 2017 | Personal Stories
As a gynecologic oncology fellow, I have the privilege of caring for women with gynecologic cancers in their greatest time of need. However, one of the most troubling experiences is caring for women whose disease could have potentially been prevented, such as those...
by ivaccinate | Feb 14, 2017 | Personal Stories
A man whose daughter’s death from meningitis sparked a nationwide petition for more children to be vaccinated against it has accused the government of complacency. On the first anniversary of Faye Burdett’s death, her father, Neil, said the government had done...
by ivaccinate | Feb 8, 2017 | Personal Stories
A virus that we’ve had a vaccine for since 1963 is at risk of making a major comeback in the US. The reason, as Dr. Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote in a New York Times opinion...
