I’d like to congratulate Shelby Rodriquez, Healthy Child Healthy World’s winner of this year’s Mom on a Mission award. The video below tells her story. You can get more detail about Shelby’s mission on our Perspective’s Blog where she was recently a guest blogger.

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Even though the flu is less dangerous than many think and this vaccine less dangerous than many think, factory farming of animals may continue to promote the creation of serious viruses and bacteria that threaten human populations. Swine flu comes from pigs shoved together where the virus spreads and mutates, then escapes to spread in [...]

The Centers for Disease Control say all people from 6 months through 24 years are in a high priority group for getting the flu shot this year. But I can understand the fear some parents have about the vaccine for the swine flu (H1N1). It has just now become available, and it’s natural for parents [...]

How can you tell the difference between cold and flu? I recorded this video with A.D.A.M. to give you information that will help you determine the difference between the two.

How do you know if you have swine flu (H1N1)? There’s a great new online tool that can help you find out — and it’s free! [...]

Get in on the free beta launch of KEAS, a new online service that provides step-by-step Care Plans to help you understand diagnoses and lab results, set health goals, and do what it takes to achieve your goals. I’m excited to be one of the founding experts, providing Care Plans on asthma and ear infections. [...]

Konrad Lorenz made his mark by studying a special type of learning where key exposures during a critical and sensitive window of development can have a lasting influence - a process he called imprinting. The famous example of this is imprinting in geese. Newly hatched goslings are programmed to follow the first moving objects they [...]