Articles tagged with 'immune system' | Checkup Newsroom

By Jean YaegerEvery week, 7-year-old Landon Clayton gets an infusion of medicine that builds up his immunity to fight off infection. Nineteen-year-old Abigail Novak also receives a weekly infusion to strengthen her immune system. Thanks to those infu...

Just in time for the holidays a reader wrote in with this question: “My friend...was told by her grandson’s pediatrician that her grandchildren who are vaccinated should never be around any unvaccinated children. Well, the parents of her other...

It’s not that my own pediatrician didn’t ask how my then 15-month-old daughter was sleeping. She did. I answered truthfully when I said that she slept well. She fell asleep promptly after her bath each night, or occasionally she’d fall asleep after o...