What’s with the H’s and the N’s? What’s a flu strain?
Every year there's a new flu shot. What's going on with all these different "strains," and what does it all mean? There are four different types of influenza: A, B,...
The immune system (in a nutshell)
The immune system fights off germs and keeps us healthy. There are a lot of cells, chemicals, molecules, and ridiculously complex reactions and processes involved in how the immune system...
The flu is showing up early this year.
I've said in the past that research is showing the time for the best immunity to the flu with the flu shot would be to get it in mid-November. The...
I mustache you a question
Stevie mustache you a question. Can you put yourself in the shoes of a parent with an immunocompromised child? (That's a child with a fragile immune system.) This may be...
Why do people make the decision to not vaccinate?
Here's an article I wrote for "Shot of Prevention" by Vaccinate Your Family . Thanks to Dr. Kloock, I learned a lot about why we make the decisions we make,...