Harpocrates Speaks

About a month ago, Phil Plait wrote about the Victoria, Australia, Ministry of Health's decision to end a program that provides pertuss...

[ Edited to add: Not sure how I missed this, but when checking out Dr. Geier's listing on the Florida Department of Health's site, i...

Ahhh. Taking a few days away from it all to visit with family and friends is always good. Even better is when you get to do all that and ret...

I heard something on the news this morning that I figured would get the anti-vaccine crowd into a fervor of excitement. It is something that...

Back in March, I wrote about how Vermont was moving toward improved public health by putting forth a bill that, if passed,would eliminate p...

Now that Memorial Day has passed in the United States and I've had some time to get over last week's emotion-draining post, it seems...

Catherina over at Just the Vax gave us all a reminder of the real impact of pertussis , or whooping cough. In that vein, this post is in tri...

The other day I shared a little bit of insight into how my brain works at times. Subject associations lead from one thing to another, and be...

The other morning, I awoke with my nose deciding it didn't want to function properly and allow me to breathe through both nostrils. The ...

This past weekend, I ran the Run for Your Lives zombie 5K obstacle course. The race served a couple purposes for me: 1) it was a good motiv...