Should immunotherapy should be recognized as the first-line therapeutic treatment for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis? Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Rick G. Kulkarni, MD, Attending Physician, Medical Director, Adult Emergency Department, Yale-New Haven Hospital, describes how to improve emergency department function. Medscape General Medicine
Infants born to women who are infected with HIV have substantially fewer passive antibodies to the measles virus and are therefore more vulnerable to measles infection before the age routine vaccination is recommended, according to a study of infants in Zambia. Reuters Health Information
Among children less than 2 years old, rates of hospitalization and ambulatory care visits for treatment of pneumonia have been cut in half since the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was added to the routine childhood immunization schedule in 2000. Reuters Health Information
A newly licensed, refrigerated formulation of cold-adapted influenza vaccine (CAIV-T) is at least as efficacious as the frozen version of live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV; FluMist) and easier to use, according to a report in the November issue of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Reuters Health Information
Some of the package inserts for prescription drugs have a new look. Do you know how to maximize the changes? American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
With proven efficacy in animal models, the authors suggest that tissue vaccines for cancer have potentially great utility and should be explored further. Expert Review of Vaccines
Overall measles antibody seropositivity was 95.9% in the United States in the years 1999-2004, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Hyattsville, Maryland, and Atlanta, Georgia, and at other public health agencies. Reuters Health Information