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…
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…
Something Even Worse: My Hib Story
“When Father Myers got up at Mass and told everyone to pray for Ben and Barbara’s daughter, MaryAnne, we thought you were never coming home…
Celebrating 25 Years: NIIW and Measles Outbreaks
The saying goes, "What's old is new again." As National Infant Immunization Week turns 25 years old, the United States is seeing more measles cases…
Mr. Lindenberger Goes to Washington, the Vax Talk Episode
As a high school senior, I made my first phone call to a doctor to schedule an appointment when I was sick. I only did…