After-hours urgent care chain PM Pediatrics raises $14 million from Scopia Capital Management. FORTUNE — PM Pediatrics, a chain of after-hours pediatric care clinics in New York and New Jersey, has quietly raised $14 million from the private equity unit of $4 billion hedge investment manager Scopia Capital Management. This is the second time that […]

Most of the bills introduced in those 18 states sought to expand the exemptions available to school immunization requirements, but none of those bills passed, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. In California, a bill signed into law in 2012 allows parents to send their children to public school without vaccinations […]

News note UNICEF gets assistance to children evacuated from besieged area of Homs HOMS, Syria 11 February 2014 – At least 500 women and children were among civilians evacuated from the besieged old city of Homs over the past few days during the ongoing humanitarian operation being undertaken by the United Nations and the Syrian […]

Press release UNICEF, government vaccinating over 1.7 million children in Guinea amid measles outbreak CONAKRY, Guinea/DAKAR, Senegal, 11 February 2014 – As the death toll and the number of suspected cases of measles continue to rise in Guinea, UNICEF and the Government of Guinea have kicked off a massive emergency campaign to vaccinate over 1.7 […]

  The nurse in this 2006 photograph was in the process of administering an intramuscular vaccination in the left shoulder muscle of a young girl. The nurse was pinching the overlying shoulder skin, in order to immobilize the injection site. Credit: CDC In a purely rational world, vaccination rates would vacillate constantly depending on how […]

In January, a 1981 Lego ad made the rounds on Reddit and social media. For some, the ad illustrated how ads back then adhered less stringently to gender roles. The story behind the ad is even more compelling. It’s not only the brainchild of a female creative director, but the model herself is also a […]

Three little girls walked through the back of Barbie’s wardrobe on Monday at Mall of America and escaped into a pink-glittered world called the Barbie Dreamhouse Experience. The trio from Rosemount — Mya Bowser, 9, Trinity Bowser, 7, and Sariah Smith, 6 — were able to preview the world’s biggest Barbie Dreamhouse before it opens […]

The Lego Movie seems like the kind of film that was dreamed up by a bunch of marketing executives looking for product integration. The concept is a 90-minute ad. It shouldn’t have worked. And yet the film is a bona fide hit, grossing $69 million in its opening weekend. Critics are raving and audiences give […]