Monthly Archives: April 2015

National Infant Immunization Week April 18 – April 25

National Infant Immunization Week is a week set aside each year to highlight the importance of protecting infants from vaccine preventable disease.  Children, especially infants, are at higher risk for disease. You can protect your infant by getting them vaccinated on time.  Why should you immunize your baby? Here are five important reasons why: Immunizations… Read more >

Moms: Are You Ready for Your New Beginnings?

By Indu Gupta, MD, MPH, Onondaga County Commissioner of Health Contributing Author: Lisa GreenMills, RN, MPH, Syracuse Healthy Start Project Director Let us take our focus to the time where the life begins. We all know that to have a healthy baby, the most important thing is a mother’s complete health- physical, emotional, and social… Read more >