This is a great little informational video on this year’s tick season: HERE It’s a little hard to understand because Dr. Goudarz has a thick accent, so I’ve dictated the important points below! Please read because if you live in the northeast (US), this year’s tick season is BAD. Here we go… It’s summertime and that […]
Someone mentioned “Chickenpox parties” the other day, and while I had heard of that before, this time it really got me heated. Of course, I went ahead and started searching out some information, because that’s what I do, and found some pretty disturbing photos. (Spare yourself from seeing them.) They weren’t photos of just the […]
The DTaP vaccine is for children 0-7 years and the Tdap vaccine is the booster given at age 11 and to adults age 19-64. Both are inactivated bacterial vaccines that protect against diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis. We consider Tdap to be a booster vaccine because of it’s reduced dose of diphtheria and pertussis. Getting […]
Hi science nerds! Did you know the first recorded instance of the word “nerd” is in Dr. Seuss’ ‘If I Ran the Zoo’ published in 1950? He wasn’t an actual doctor. He added the “Dr.” to his pen name because his father always wanted him to practice medicine. He did, however, earn an honorary doctorate […]
