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Pediatricians Voice Anger Over Costs of Vaccines
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2007 The nonimmunized child is at risk for vaccinepreventable infections and therefore serves as a reservoir of infection, threatening other children in the community. The eradication of childhood diseases faces many obstacles, the majority of them financial. read more | |
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Extensively Drug-Resistant TB: What Is To Be Done?
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2007 Since its entry into the medical literature in 2005, public awareness of extensively drugresistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has spiraled upward. Within months, a World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Global Task Force created the current case definition, which requires resistance to isoniazid, rifampin, a fluoroquinolone, and amikacin, capreomycin, or kanamycin. read more | |
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Pandemic Influenza: Are We Prepared?
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2006 During the past year, avian influenza has been in the news on an almost daily basis. Often, the reports have been based on fragmentary information and have served to confuse rather than clarify the situation. read more | |
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Influenza: Options for Treatment and Prophylaxis
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2006 Influenza, the clinical manifestations of infection with influenza A or B viruses, has a significant yearly effect on human health in the United States and elsewhere. read more | |
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Treatment of Respiratory Tract Infections In Pediatric and Adult Patients 2005
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2005 Respiratory tract infections account for as many as 75% of antibiotic prescriptions written in ambulatory settings in the United States.1 However, many of these prescriptions are written unnecessarily. read more | |
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Influenza Update: Avian Influenza — A Continuing Threat
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2005 The threat of pandemics caused by a new type A influenza virus is always present. However, since early 2004, pandemic influenza has been an increasing concern because of the ongoing outbreak of avian influenza in Asia. read more | |
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Pandemic Influenza
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2004 Global planning for an influenza pandemic, which might occur at any time, began long before the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak of 2003,which provided a wake-up call that an infectious agent could spread rapidly in an era of extensive population movement. read more |
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