The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has updated its recommendations for the revaccination of persons at prolonged increased risk for meningococcal disease. Medscape Medical News
A cross-sectional study has shown an inverse relationship between vitamin D levels and measures of allergy and asthma severity in Costa Rican children with asthma. Medscape Medical News
Hot on the heels of the H1N1 influenza pandemic, new research suggests physicians and the public seem to be getting the message about the importance of universal influenza vaccination. Medscape Medical News
Despite knowledge of interim recommendations to defer vaccine in healthy toddlers during the shortage, many physicians did not do so. Medscape Medical News
A detailed review of occupational respiratory diseases diagnosed in New York City firefighters who responded to the attack on the World Trade Center. Medscape Pulmonary Medicine
Results of a study published in the October issue of the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology suggest that fexofenadine hydrochloride is safe and well tolerated in children younger than 6 years with allergic rhinitis. Reuters Health Information
