Kimberly M. Thompson, ScD, Associate Professor and Director, Kids Risk Project, Harvard School of Public Health, explains how we can improve media ratings. Medscape General Medicine
Kenneth R. Pelletier, MD, PhD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and the University of California School of Medicine, describes evidence-based CAM. Medscape General Medicine
A history of atopic disease is inversely associated with the risk of glioma, according to findings published in the October 17th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Reuters Health Information
The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) booster vaccination administered to 8- to 9-year-old children has no effect on the course of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), according to study findings published in the October issue of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Reuters Health Information
Prof. Rolf Zinkernagel, immunologist and Nobel Prize winner, was interviewed after his lecture on "Why Do We Not Have a Vaccine Against TB or HIV (Yet)?" Medscape General Medicine
It is possible that the delivery vehicle for a recently discontinued investigational HIV vaccine increased susceptibility to HIV infection among the volunteers who received the vaccine, the researchers said Wednesday at a press conference in Seattle, Washington. Reuters Health Information
The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does an actual infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases. Reuters Health Information
The value of using outcome measures is critically scrutinized in an examination of the debate between rights-oriented and commodity-oriented approaches to healthcare delivery. Medscape General Medicine
