Get answers to your most pressing questions about vaccine safety and effectiveness. Plus keep track of your child's shots with our immunization scheduler. Because vaccines are the best way to protect him from life-threatening diseases.
Shots are the part of well-child checkups that every parent dreads.
Knowing what's coming, you'll cringe at the thought of your little one in pain. But immunizations may be the most important part of these visits. They're designed to protect your child from diseases that were much more prevalent in the earlier part of the last century. Thanks to widespread use of vaccines, most of these illnesses are rarely seen anymore in this country. Click here for tips on how to make these shots less traumatic for your toddler .