I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children..

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized..

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's b….

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters..

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it..

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vacc….

The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias..

Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to b….

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins..

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing..

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on….

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults..

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children..

Your child can die from chickenpox..

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis..