Dr. Annette M. St. Pierre-MacKoul

03/29/2026

Take the first step by taking a free screening for your child.

03/28/2026

03/28/2026

03/28/2026

03/26/2026

Discover how NCQA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program helps health care providers improve care coordination, patient outcomes, and practice efficiency.

03/26/2026

03/24/2026

Health officials in the U.K. are rushing to contain a deadly outbreak of a form of bacterial meningitis called by meningococcal meningitis launching a massive antibiotic and vaccination campaign for the thousands of people affected, many of whom are students.

The contagious infection was first detected among young people at the University of Kent in England. The disease has since quickly spread to other students and people in the region: as of March 19, thousands of people had been contacted by health authorities because of their potential exposure to the disease, at least 29 people had confirmed or suspected infections, and two had died, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency. http://spklr.io/6047EHN1f

03/23/2026

What has changed that makes people so fearful of measles today?

As a child in the early 1960s, it seemed like almost every kid at school eventually caught it. My siblings and I did too. Before the measles vaccine existed, getting measles was practically inevitable. It didn’t matter how anyone felt about it — measles is extraordinarily contagious, and most children were going to catch it at some point. In fact, people believed it was even more dangerous if you caught it as an adult.

But that doesn’t mean it was harmless.

Some children died from measles, and the number was not insignificant. Many others were left with lifelong complications — deafness, blindness, or permanent neurological damage caused by encephalitis.

People who had measles back then often remember spending days isolated in a dark, quiet room. It was believed that reducing light and noise might help prevent damage to their vision or hearing.

So yes, people feared measles — deeply. But they also knew there was little they could do to protect their children from it.

Today, measles is spreading in America. The most severe cases have been among unvaccinated children, and there have already been deaths.

Think about that for a moment. Our medical knowledge today is light-years ahead of what it was in the 1960s. We have technologies, medications, and treatments people back then could hardly imagine. And yet, even with all those advances, some of these children could not be saved.

That’s why people are afraid of measles.

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03/21/2026

03/19/2026

Nearly 90,000 bottles of children's ibuprofen has been recalled because it may contain a "foreign substance."