This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 304 for December 10th, 2014.

We're calling this one Intelligence, Power Lines, and Laundry Pods.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

So we have a news parents-can-use edition of the program lined up for you this week,

and I'll get to the complete rundown of topics in a few moments.

But first, I was going through a bunch of pediatric journals and other sources of pediatric news for you this week

in preparation for today's show.

And I came across an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding measles

and the increasing number of measles cases, mostly resulting from parents who are choosing

to forego immunizations in their children.

And of course, being a few miles away from the epicenter of the largest recent measles outbreak in the nation, just a few months ago, in a predominantly Amish population of unvaccinated children in North Central Ohio.

And subsequently, hearing about measles nonstop there for a while in the local

news media and seeing kids in urgent cares in the emergency department whose parents who are

worried their child's funny-looking rash might be the measles because moms and dads were

hearing all those news reports as well.

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