I stopped by a friend’s house last weekend and watched as her 6-year-old son finished off his breakfast of sugary cereal and fruit juice with a bright, neon-colored multivitamin. She was so busy rushing around to get everything going for the day that there just wasn’t enough time to sit her down and explain that […]

Over the past year or so, I’ve been noticing more and more commercials on TV advertising the re-emergence of a highly-contagious respiratory infection called pertussis (whooping cough). In one of the commercials, an actress portrays a concerned mother holding her baby as the sounds of a child coughing and struggling to breathe play in the […]