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Do You Vaccinate Your Children?

by Brett Singer, Posted Dec 6th 2010 9:38AM

Do you vaccinate your kids? Credit: Getty Images
December 6 is Family Vaccination Day, which is part of the fourth annual National Influenza Vaccination Week. The focus here is on the flu vaccine, but of course there are many other shots out ...Do you vaccinate your children against the flu and other diseases?
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Bare Handshake a No-No Now in Youth Hockey

by Mark Hyman, Posted Nov 19th 2009 9:00AM

Kids are now discouraged from hand-to-hand contact. Credit: Corbis
The latest casualty of the swine flu outbreak: Handshakes after youth hockey games. With the flu spreading, USA Hockey, the national governing body for the sport, now ...
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Flu shots - required or optional?

by Amy Hatch, Posted Nov 12th 2008 4:00PM

Influenza vaccine is designed to fight the three main strains of disease that researchers believe will circulate in any given flu season, but that doesn't mean you are guaranteed to evade the illness if you get a flu shot. It's the time of year ...
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Flu shots, pregnancy and the unborn child

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Sep 27th 2008 3:02PM

Hard to believe but it's already flu season again. Or, to be more accurate, it's really (hopefully) flu PREVENTION season. This week the Center for Disease Control whipped out a new, stronger than ever campaign to get pregnant women and young ...
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Flu vaccine urged for infants

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Sep 25th 2008 10:00AM

This year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that kids as young as six months receive the influenza vaccine. There are plenty of doses of the vaccine available -- 143 million -- so the additional kids do not represent a problem. ...
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Flu season worst in four years

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Apr 20th 2008 1:00PM

Yesterday, after three whole days of sunny weather here, the mood at preschool pickup was amazing. If you live in the north, you know what a few days of spring weather can do for the soul. Last week, we were all pale, shivering, and huddled still in ...
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FLU: The sequel

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Mar 7th 2008 2:26PM

I've been (noticeably?) absent on ParentDish for the past couple of weeks, thanks to a particularly nasty bug that cycled through everyone in this household. But wait! It didn't stop there, NO! It took out my parents, my sister and anyone else I ...
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Fighting a cold, and winning

by Kristin Darguzas, Posted Oct 2nd 2007 8:00AM

I think tis the season for running noses and raspy coughs and violent overnight stomach bugs. After my last round with the bathroom bucket, I felt the trickle of a flu bug creeping up on me. Sore throat. Achy legs. Tell-tale thud thud on the side of ...
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Make-your-own oral rehydration solution! (i.e. pedia-lyte)

by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 13th 2006 8:27AM

If the families of our bloggers are any indication, it's flu season! As part of the festivities, our babies are drinking lots of oral rehydration solution, sometimes known as Pedialyte or one of its various generic names. When Charlie was diagnosed ...
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