Learn more about a multistate measles outbreak. This article highlights why we need to maintain the highest possible vaccination coverage in the United States. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
Virginia A. Moyer, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, and of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, reports on screening children for obesity. The Medscape Journal of Medicine
Frank Greer, MD, talks about the clinical evidence regarding nutritional options during pregnancy, lactation, and the first year of life. Medscape Pediatrics
From February 2006 to May 2007, nearly half of infants aged 3 months received one dose of the human-bovine rotavirus vaccine RotaTeq, according to findings released April 18th in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Reuters Health Information
The proven efficacy of a high-potency live-attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine is based on its ability to boost VZV-specific cell-mediated immunity and VZV antibody levels. Reuters Health Information
The potency of DNA vaccine against West Nile virus can be boosted by allowing the production of infectious particles, but stopping their replication following one round of infection, according to a report in the April 20th advance online issue of Nature Biotechnology. Reuters Health Information
There appears to be a relationship between preeclampsia and an increase in airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), according to UK investigators, who believe their study to be the first report of such an association. Reuters Health Information
Exhaled nitric oxide levels are higher in young children with frequent recurrent wheeze who are more at risk of asthma compared with young children with occasional wheeze, according to researchers. Reuters Health Information
An updated review provides various methods of encouraging patients to adhere to their medications, but the reviewers say that there are significant limitations and that more research is needed. Medscape Medical News