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Archive for August, 2009
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Swine Flu Updates for Parents
In the absence of any time to write a proper post, some links: The Good The New York Times reports the absence of any severe side effects during the first round of injections in H1N1 vaccination trials. Next up, first-round trial injections for kids and then pregnant women. The Bad As college students fill up dorms, swine flu cases on [...] -
The Truth About Health Care Reform
For the record: This blog supports health care reform and a public health option, and longtime readers know that’s in part because of my experience with the inability to acquire health coverage during the first half of my pregnancy with AG in 1998. What those frightening months of no insurance – and therefore no maternity care [...] -
The Benefit of the Seasonal Flu Shot in a Pandemic World
I swear I’m going to start posting about something other than H1N1 again, probably as soon as my kid’s always-idyllic, flare-free summer ends and we start the usual rounds of colds, viruses, and flares when school starts in a week. On Friday, when I took AG to her pediatrician for an overall lung check-up and chat [...] -
H1N1: Prevention, Masks and the First 36 Hours
Finally. Some potentially positive news about H1N1: new research suggests face masks can help prevent transmission. I know talking to your friends and family about buying a couple of masks will invariably set off the usual eyerolling and bragging over just how unworried they are, but that’s okay. We’ll just talk about the masks and swine flu [...] -
Dear New York Asthma Parents
Are you in the Queens area? Feel like helping a graduate student out with an article? Sure you do! Check it out, straight from my inbox to you: Hi all- I’m a student at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and I work full time in promotion at NBC Universal in NYC, and I’m hoping some [...]
