December 21, 2003 - Teens to get whooping cough booster - www.abc.net.au

October 2003 - Caring for Kids: Influenza Vaccine -  Canadian Paediatric Society

December 2003 - Influenza vaccination options to prevent hospitalization - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

December 16, 2003 - Vaccines -- How They are Made, Supplied, and Monitored for the Health and Safety of our Children - (registration required) - www.medscape.com

December 22, 2003 - Aventis Submits Application to FDA for Menactra - Dow Jones Newswire via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

December 20, 2003 - Canada, Taiwan Agree to Cooperate in Search for SARS Vaccine - AFP via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

December 20, 2003 - CDC Finds More Flu Vaccine - Akron Beacon Journal via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

December 22, 2003 - Aventis Submits Application for FDA Approval of Menactra(TM), First Candidate Quadrivalent Conjugate Meningococcal Vaccine - Aventis on Track to Submit Four New Products for Approval In 2003 - PRNewswire-First Call via Yahoo!

December 21, 2003 - Specialists urging action in wake of vaccine shortage - Sun-Sentinel

December 21, 2003 - Abilities Unlimited staff settling into new facility - Jonesboro Sun

December 19, 2003 - Kids Count urges more training and awareness of autism - In that way, youngsters can be diagnosed and treated earlier which, one expert says, "will produce much better outcomes for these children later on." - The Providence Journal

December 21, 2003 - Federal effort could help those dealing with autism - AP via www.startribune.com

December 22, 2003 - Tracking Autism - West Virginia's registry of patients, the nation's first, will aid in research - AP via www.indystar.com

December 21, 2003 - 'American Idol' Star Clay Aiken Graduates - AP via Sun-Sentinel

December 22, 2003 - Schafer Autism Report

December 18, 2003 - LG Develops Next-Generation Hepatitis-B Drug - Korea Herald via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

December 21, 2003 - Hepatitis rarity in U.S. makes it dangerous - Virus more common where sanitation is poor, but that builds resistance to it - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

December 18, 2003 - Prejudice, Poverty, And Polio Palaver - (book review) - Daily Trust (Abuja) via www.alllafrica.com - "In his new book 'Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor,' published in April 2003, Paul Farmer, Boston-based medical doctor and Harvard professor of anthropology, gives us a rare, passionate, eloquent and profound understanding of how global inequality creates massive diseases and large scale death in poorer countries of the world."

December 2003 - Infection control and paediatric tuberculosis: A practical guide for the practicing paediatrician - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

December 2003 - Community-aquired pneumonia in children - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

December 2003 - Use of Birth Certificates and Surveillance Data to Characterize Reported Pertussis amoung Texas Infants and Young Children, 1995 to 2000 - journal article (Southern Medical Journal)

December 2003 - For coughs, colds and SARS, wear a mask - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

June 4, 2003 - Scientists starve malaria parasite -  Scientists have discovered a way to kill the malaria parasite - by targeting its sweet tooth. - BBC

December 21, 2003 - New Hope for Chronic Illnesses - Benjamin Franklin Literary and Medical Society via  http://mentalhelp.net - "Advances in human gene therapy and stem cell transplants offer new hope for people suffering from a wide variety of chronic illnesses. Research at the Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine under the helm of Elliot Rosen, Ph.D., may pave the way to better treatment for the thousands of people suffering from abnormal bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia."

December 21, 2003 - Primary care and primary immunodeficiencies - American Family Physician via  http://mentalhelp.net

December 21, 2003 - Cease-Fire Opens Sudan War Zone to Health Workers - Washington Post via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

December 22, 2003 - Blood transfusion linked to mad cow disease death - First UK case of variant CJD from blood. - Nature - "It is not possible to tell whether the patient caught the fatal disease - called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) - from the transfusion or contracted it by eating infected meat. But the incident is the first case of "possible transmission" through transfusion - something that scientists have long known to be a possibility."