Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA

Infant Mortality - Individual solutions needed for poor countries to reduce neonatal death rates

Influenza - Vaccination programs for children in U.S., Canada based on little evidence

Influenza Vaccine - Norway to be supplied with special vaccines in event of influenza pandemic

Information Technology - GE Healthcare to supply U.S. government with pharmacy information system

Information Technology - Technology company releases donor management system for review

Information Technology - U.S. Department of Defense health system contracts for compliance software

Leishmaniasis - Promising visceral leishmaniasis treatments must translate into actual therapy

Leptospirosis - Percutaneous exposure results in laboratory-acquired leptospirosis

Licensing - Pharmaceutical firm acquires license to endothelinB agonists for chemo delivery

Listeriosis - Growth conditions affect thermal inactivation of Listeria

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis - High rate of abnormal BMD found in women with pulmonary disease

Malaria - Malaria morbidity in children increases as transmission intensity decreases

Malaria - Malaria still reduced in areas after withdrawal of deltamethrin spray

Malaria Diagnostics - Four plasmodium species detected in blood by real-time PCR

Malaria Therapy - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of malaria therapy

Malaria Vaccine - Baculovirus-based malaria vaccine shows promise in Senegalese village

Malaria Vaccine - Epitope mapping of malaria parasite inhibitory antibodies reported

Malaria Vaccine - Modified HRP-I peptide analogue protects against malaria

Malaria Vaccines - Reports add new data to malaria vaccines research

Marek's Disease Virus - Marek's disease virus genome copy number in chicken feathers quantified

Measles Vaccine - Measles genotype in Spain after measles elimination plan reported

Mergers & Acquisitions - Letter of intent signed to acquire parts of pHarlo Citrus Technology, 2 labs

Microbial Identification - Multispacer typing useful for strain genotyping during outbreaks/bioterrorism

Microbial Resistance - Beta-lactam susceptibilities evaluated against Enterobacteriaceae isolates

Microbial Resistance - In France, ESBL-producing S. enterica strains emerging in chickens & humans

Mosquito-Borne Disease - Aircraft is the main vessel for mosquito entry into New Zealand

Mycobacterial Infection - New mycobacaterial species found in sputum of patient with hemoptoic pneumonia

Mycobacterium Abscessus - Inability to type M. abscessus by PFGE assoc. with single clone of organism

Mycobacterium Xenopi Infection -  Mycobacterium xenopi infection developed following heart transplantation

Myocardial Infarction - African Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment

Nosocomial Infections - U.S.FDA grants priorty status to drug for serious skin, soft tissue infections

Obstetric Fistula - Over 300 Nigerian women's obstetric injuries treated in first week of campaign

Obstetrics - Gestational night blindness seen in 18% of women attending Brazilian hospital

Obstetrics - U.S. FDA clear new fetal-health device

Orthopedics - Company gets FDA clearance for pivotal trial of Z-Lig device

Osteoporosis - Intervention results in significantly greater calcium intake among women

Pancreatic Cancer - U.S. FDA clears randomized portion of phase II TNFerade in pancreatic cancer

Parkinson Disease - European approval to market rasagiline 1 mg for Parkinson disease granted

Patents - Patent challenge of injection to treat migraine attacks in adults initiated

Patents - RNA-focused company granted 2 RNAi technology patents by U.K. Patent Office

Patents - Therapeutics company granted U.S. patent for developing allergy antibodies

Personnel - Richard C. Levin named CEO and president of natural personal products company

Philanthropy - U.N. health body welcomes Canadian gift

Pneumococcal Vaccine - Rapid multiplex assay for serotyping pneumococci developed

Pregnancy - Obese and tall women have increased incidence of fraternal twins

Probiotics - Use of probiotics reviewed

Prostate Cancer - Provenge/Avastin combo increases PSADT

Prostate Cancer - U.S. FDA approves new device for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa -  Pseudomonas aeruginosa is non-clonal but has an epidemic population

Rabies Vaccine - New rabies vaccine manufactured in India is safe and immunogenic

Regulatory Issues - FDA seeks drug-warning-label authority

SARS Coronavirus - Chronological evolution of Ab levels determined after SARS coronavirus infection

SARS Coronavirus - RT-PCR distinguishes SARS coronavirus from other respiratory tract infections

SARS Vaccine - Binding system restores interaction between SARS protein and receptor

SARS Vaccine - Intranasal immunization with inactivated SARS-CoV induces antibodies

SARS Vaccines - Recent findings illuminate research in SARS vaccines

Salmonella Vaccine - Type 1 fimbriae protects laying hens against Salmonella

Sexual Behavior - Contraception use not keeping up with conception rates in Latin America

Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Funding affects incidence of sexually transmitted diseases

Shigellosis Vaccine -  Shigella flexneri vaccine strains characterized

Skin Cancer - Recent studies add new data to skin cancer research

Smallpox Vaccine - Smallpox vaccine does not protect macaques with AIDS from monkeypox

Smoking Cessation - "Truth" campaign driving youth smoking rates down

Smoking Cessation - Global tobacco treaty enters into force with 57 countries already committed

Smoking Cessation - Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults

Social Policy - Branding practices in rural India should be banned

Sociology - Child sex-trafficking study in Bosnia reveals misperceptions

Space Travel - Nanobacterial infections important during space travel

Spinal Cord Injury - U.S. FDA grants 510(k) clearance to market 2 fusion spine products in the U.S.

Spinal Cord Injury - U.S.FDA grants clearance of device to detect possible vertebral pedicle breach

Stem Cell Research - PTH/PTHrP signaling is major regulator of bone marrow ontogeny

Streptococcal Equi Diagnostics - Multiplex PCR differentiates closely related streptococcal species

Stroke - U.S. FDA accepts application for tool to aid in stroke assessment, diagnosis

Surgical Technology - Positive reaction to femoral puncture closure device, developer reports

Tick-Borne Virus - Tick-borne viruses in Europe are potential agents of bioterrorism

Tobacco Use - Treatment of tobacco dependence reviewed

Toxoplasmosis Vaccine -  Toxoplasma gondii proteins protect against oral infection

Tuberculosis -  M. tuberculosis lineage with low IS6110 copy numbers clonally expanded

Tuberculosis - Genotypic/phenotypic heterogeneity among M. tuberculosis isolates determined

Tuberculosis - Molecular genetic methods for mycobacterial research reviewed

Tuberculosis Vaccines - Cutaneous tuberculosis evoked by BGG vaccination in healthy baby

Tuberculosis Vaccines - Findings in tuberculosis vaccines provide new insights

Type 2 Diabetes - Diabetes prevention efforts worth every penny

Urea Cycle Disorder - Pharmaceutical company obtains FDA approval of treatment for urea cycle disorder

Vaccine Development - Biopharma initiates new Botulinum toxin therapeutic program

Vaccine Development - Sugar epitopes are potential disease transmission blocking targets

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus - Esp/vancomycin resistance may contribute to clonal enterococcal dissemination

Vibrio Cholerae - Possible source of V. cholerae outbreak is effluent from ships or poachers

Virology - Studies add new findings to virology body of knowledge

Water-Borne Illness - Unsafe water, poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day

West Nile Virus - West Nile virus is an emerging arbovirus