The flu can definitely set you up for bacterial pneumonias.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.

One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.

There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.