NewsOct 5, 2026
The FDA has approved Autus, a synthetic pulmonary heart valve that can spare children some of the repeat open-heart surgeries a fixed valve requires. It's sewn in once during open-heart surgery, and as the child grows, a cardiologist can thread a balloon catheter up to it and widen it without opening the chest. It tops out around an adult valve size, so it carries a child through the growing years, and how well it holds up over many years is still being tracked.
NewsSep 3, 2026
Two MMR doses on the standard schedule give your child roughly 97% lifetime protection against measles, and that number has held up in huge cohorts followed more than a decade out. Whether the US formally loses its elimination certificate in November matters far less to your family than whether the kids in your child's daycare, classroom, and pediatric waiting room are vaccinated. The gap is uptake, and it's fixable this week.
NewsAug 23, 2026
Two on-time doses of MMR give your child about 97% lifetime protection against measles, and that individual protection matters more this year than it has in a generation. National kindergarten coverage has slipped for a sixth straight year. Exemptions cluster in specific schools, and US measles cases have already passed 2,400. Your own child's schedule is still the piece you control.
