This article reports the national influenza surveillance data in New Zealand collected during 1997-2006 in terms of the community disease burden, and circulating viral strains. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
If Congress next week sets a new effective date for the 21.2% pay cut, Medicare will pay claims that were put on hold at the current pay rate. Medscape Medical News
Supplementation of pregnant or breast-feeding mothers and infants with Lactobacillus rhamnosus decreases the incidence of eczema in the children, up to age 4 years. Medscape Medical News
A study published in the September 27, 2007 issue of NEJM fails to find a link between prenatal or postnatal thimerosal exposure and neuropsychological functioning in childhood. Medscape Pediatrics
Did contact exposure experiments of influenza virus (H5N1)-infected cats with uninfected dogs result in interspecies transmission? Emerging Infectious Diseases
Societies representing primary care physicians tend to support the new law and the economic benefits it holds for them. The law has little to offer surgeons, however, and their societies oppose it. Medscape Medical News
