Infants breastfed by mothers using inhaled budesonide (Pulmicort Turbuhaler, AstraZeneca) for asthma are not exposed to any important level of the drug, according to Swedish researchers. 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
The European League Against Rheumatism has issued 10 recommendations for cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis. Medscape Medical News
US and Taiwanese researchers have created a consensus-hemagglutinin-based DNA vaccine that provides protection against a wide range of H5N1 viruses, the results of an animal study show. Reuters Health Information
In children with a cough that lasts more than 8 weeks, the most likely causes are allergy, reflux, and asthma, according to a report in the September issue of Chest. Reuters Health Information
