►March 20, 2004 - Pfizer Study Sparked Nigeria Boycott - AP via The Herald-Sun  

►March 20, 2004 - Canadian Mills Blamed for U.S. Mad Cow - AP via The Herald-Sun  

►March 20, 2004 - Medical mistakes targeted - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

►March 20, 2004 - Limits Urged on Eating Tuna - U.S. Agencies Cite Levels of Mercury (requires registration) - The Washington Post

►March 2004 - Thyroid dysfunction in antiretroviral treated children - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March/April 2004 - Sleep in infants and young children: Part one: Normal sleep - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Health Care)

►March 2004 - SSRIs in children and adolescents: Where do we stand? Parents have heard the frightening news reports. Here is information to help you answer their questions - journal article (Current Psychiatry)

►March 2004 - Systemic Anaphylaxis Following Local Lidocaine Administration During a Dental Procedure - journal article (Pediatric Emergency Care)

►March 20, 2004 - International stockpile of antiviral drugs could help curb global flu outbreak - AP, CP via www.canada.com

►March 18, 2004 - Health experts call for stockpiling anti-flu drugs - Reuters AlertNet

►March 19, 2004 - Wyo. to Boost Flu Vaccines Next Season - Wyoming Health Officials to Increase Vaccine Requests, Expand Flu Shot Clinics for Next Season - AP via ABC News

►March 18, 2004 - Prepare for flu pandemic, says UN - The world must prepare itself to face an "inevitable" influenza pandemic, the World Health Organisation has warned. - BBC

►March 19, 2004 - WHO warns of lax flu epidemic preparations - UPI

►March 18, 2004 - WHO highly values consultation on influenza pandemic preparedness - Xinhuanet via China View

►March 19, 2004 - FDA includes Fujian strain in next year's flu vaccine - CIDRAP News

►March 18, 2004 - FDA Decides on Next Year's Flu Vaccine - AP via The Miami Herald

►March 18, 2004 - Health authorities issue warning on new flu virus - www.abc.net.au

►March 20, 2004 - Bird flu kills Vietnamese child - A 12-year-old boy has died from bird flu in Vietnam, taking this year's death toll from the virus to 24. - BBC

►March 20, 2004 - Latest bird flu death hits Vietnam's hopes of declaring end to crisis - www.channelnewsasia.com

►March 19, 2004 - Vietnam Says Boy Dies of Bird Flu, Asia Toll at 24 - Reuters

►March 19, 2004 - Groups: Bird Flu Crisis Isn't Over Yet (requires registration) - AP via The Kansas City Star

►March 18, 2004 - Bird flu: UN summit urges preparations to block possible human pandemic - UN

►March 19, 2004 - Japan, South Korean bird flu virus almost identical - Reuters AlertNet

►March 19, 2004 - Judge will decide by May 1 on venue for hepatitis C lawsuits - Fremont Tribune

►March 19, 2004 - N.Y. Criticized for Hepatitis C Treatment Rules - www.jointogether.org

►March 20, 2004 - Expert: Hepatitis not tied to firefighting (requires registration) - Orlando Sentinel

►March 19, 2004 - Former Firefighter Says City Tried To Cover Up Hepatitis Diagnosis - www.wftv.com

►March 19, 2004 - Twin Cities: Blood donors banned in error - Pioneer Press via www.twincities.com

►March 20, 2004 - Child Dies From Meningitis - www.wkyt.com

►March 20, 2004 - County probing possible viral meningitis cases - www.polkonline.com

►March 20, 2004 - Polk County meningitis cases not related - www.baynews9.com

►March 20, 2004 - Glaxo lines up R&D push - Business Standard

►March 19, 2004 - New Treatment Guidelines Released for Acute Otitis Media, the Most Common Form of Ear Infections Among Young Children - Antibiotic Market Leader GlaxoSmithKline Supports Guidelines' Emphasis on the Importance Of Accurate Diagnosis and Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Acute Otitis Media - press release - GlaxoSmithKline via PRNewswire-FirstCall via Yahoo!

*►March 18, 2004 - 'Just the facts' not EPA's credo - opinion - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►March 19, 2004 - Former EPA chief Carol Browner accuses Bush Administration of gutting agency - UC Berkeley News

►March 19, 2004 - Whitman Denies Knowing Mercury Study Was Stalled - Democrats say, as EPA chief, she knew analysis needed to pursue lower industrial emissions had been shelved, and promised to deliver it. (requires registration) - The Los Angeles Times

►March 18, 2004 - EU Warns Pregnant Women Over Mercury in Fish - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 19, 2004 - Women, Children Warned About Tuna Consumption - Government Offers More Specific Guidelines on Mercury in Fish  (requires registration) - The Washington Post

►March 19, 2004 - Mercury Fears Spur New Fish Consumption Guidelines - But U.S. critics say FDA, EPA ignore risks from albacore tuna - HealthDay News

►March 20, 2004 - CHILDREN, PREGNANT WOMEN AT RISK: Warnings about mercury in fish - Keeping health benefits in mind, FDA issues guidelines regarding which to eat, and how much - AP via Newsday

►March 19, 2004 - Eat Lower-Mercury Fish, U.S. Tells Women, Children - Reuters

►March 20, 2004 - Parents rush for advice on mercury-free vaccines - The Scotsman

►March 19, 2004 - Immunization Goal in sight - The Post-Searchlight via www.zwire.com

►March 20, 2004 - Treating biomedical waste still a dream - Times of India

►March 20, 2004 - Vaccine may combat ricin attack - US scientists have developed a vaccine for an inhaled form of the lethal toxin ricin. - BBC

►March 19, 2004 - Unraveling the Mysteries of MS - Neurological disorder still has as many questions as answers - HealthDay News

►March 20, 2004 - Health News India - Polio to be eradicated by year end: WHO official - www.newkerala.com

►March 19, 2004 - Conquering polio a world away from home - Exeter News-Letter via  www.seacoastonline.com

►March 19, 2004 - UN: Polio cases spreading - Cases appear where the disease was once eradicated - AP via CNN

*►March 19, 2004 - Polio Controversy: Group Sues SCSN, Datti Ahmed - This Day via www.allafrica.com

►March 19, 2004 - Polio victim excited about going to vote for first time - I was struck by polio at five, and now I am 45 years old and will vote for the first time on Sunday. - New Straits Times via www.emedia.com.my

►March 19, 2004 - No-Carb Diets OK For Cavemen, Could Be Problem In Future - Study Warns Against Eating Too Much Meat With Sedentary Lifestyle - www.nbc4.tv

►March 19, 2004 - Vaccinations best weapon against WNV, study shows - www.dvmnewsmagazine.com

►March 19, 2004 - Common Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's Disease - Respiratory bug leads to hallmark amyloid plaques in brain - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine via HealthDay News

►March 19, 2004 - Evolution's twist - USC study finds meat-tolerant genes offset high cholesterol and disease - University of Southern California via www.eurekalert.org

►March 19, 2004 - PAHO Director Says Long-Term, Substantive Investments Needed for Health in Haiti - Pan American Health Organization

*►March 19, 2004 - Family's struggle with autism therapy - Oak Ridge Schools: Hired Atlanta attorney to fight due process hearing. - www.oakridger.com

►March 19, 2004 - Whitney Tuck wages battle against leukemia, bone marrow match must be found soon - May is usually a time of hopes and dreams for high school seniors, but last year that month was filled with pain for Whitney Tuck. - The Tullahoma News via www.zwire.com

►March 20, 2004 - Not only infants get whooping cough - Medical News Today

►March 20, 2004 - Costs Of Having Children Add Up Quickly For Parents - Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan

Peds Infectious Disease

►March 2004 - Positive Heterophile Antibody Test and Massive Splenomegaly in an Adolescent With Previously Unsuspected Gaucher Disease - journal article (Pediatric Emergency Care)

►March 2004 - Vertical transmission of toxoplasmosis from a chronically infected immunocompetent woman - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March/April 2004 - Acute sinusitis in children: Diagnosis and management - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Health Care)

►March 2004 - Hot tap water scalds prevention: A case for the power of public health partnerships in affecting regulatory change - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health) 

►March 2004 - Emergency department management of sexually transmitted infections in US adolescents: Results from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey - journal article (Annals of Emergency Medicine)

►March 18, 2004 - Govt Warns of Inhalant Abuse Among Kids - AP via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Abbott Sued in Calif. Over AIDS Drug Statements - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Miami Hospital Claims Record 8-Organ Transplant - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Antidepressant Use in Children Rising -Researchers - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Claritin Cleared of Causing Birth Defect - HealthDay via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Big Families Mean Big Waistlines for Mom and Dad - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Whopping Cough Outbreak Reported at Middle School - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 18, 2004 - Next flu vaccine to battle this year's troublesome strain - AP via USA Today

►March 17, 2004 - Re: Unreliability of Scientific Papers as Evidence - letter in response to Unreliability of Scientific Papers as Evidence

►March 15, 2004 - Popcorn worker with lung disease wins $20M jury award - USA Today

►March 2004 - Double blind comparison of ibuprofen and paracetamol for adjunctive treatment of uncomplicated typhoid fever - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March 2004 - Fatal coxsackievirus a16 infection - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

January 2004 - Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Overview of Empirically Based Treatments - journal article (Journal of Psychiatric Practice)

April 2004 - Psychiatric Symptoms in Children With Primary Headache - journal article (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

►March 2004 - Pericarditis after meningococcal infection: case report of a child with two distinct episodes - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March 2004 - Mother-to-child transmission of cryptococcus neoformans - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

*►March 2004 - Infant immune response to human rotavirus serotype G1 vaccine candidate reassortant WI79-9: different dose response patterns to virus surface proteins VP7 and VP4 - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March 2004 - Comparison of pulsed field gel electrophoresis patterns of Bordetella pertussis isolates from unvaccinated children with severe or mild pertussis - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March 2004 - Use of a computerized database to study the effectiveness of an attenuated varicella vaccine - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
►March 2004 - Thyroid dysfunction in antiretroviral treated children - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) 

*►March 2004 - Concomitant administration of a bivalent Haemophilus influenzae type b-hepatitis B vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and varicella vaccine: safety, tolerability and immunogenicity - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)  

►March 2004 - National study of infants hospitalized with pertussis in the acellular vaccine era - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)   

►March 2004 - The puzzling picture of acute necrotizing encephalopathy after influenza A and B virus infection in young children - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►March 2004 - Influenza A virus-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy in the United States - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)   

April 2004 - After school activities, overweight, and obesity among inner city youth - journal article (Journal of Adolescence)

►March 2004 - An ounce of prevention - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

►March 17, 2004 - Supplement Companies Agree to End Cure Claims -US - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 17, 2004 - Hypertension in Childhood a Harbinger for Heart Disease - HealthDay via Yahoo!

►March 17, 2004 - New research suggests that when children ask 'what is this?' they may seek an object's function - American Psychological Society via www.eurekalert.org

►March 20, 2004 - Turkish Researcher Finds Vaccine For Leukemia - Zaman Daily Online

►March 20, 2004 - Chiron: Middleton firm didn't fit - The Capital Times via www.madison.com

►March 21, 2004 - War on polio obstructed by radical clerics - The Independent, UK

►March 21, 2004 - Nigerian State Waits on Polio Vaccines - AP via The Mercury News

►March 20, 2004 - Polio to be eradicated by year end: WHO - Navhind Times - "Mr David Heymann, global advisor to the polio eradication programme and advisor to the WHO director general, said: 'We are hopeful that polio would be eradicated by the end of 2004 or by early 2005.'"

*►March 20, 2004 - Pfizer Study Sparked Nigeria Boycott - AP via The Miami Herald - "Isa Mohammed distrusts doctors, especially white foreign ones. His suspicions, he says, stem from a 1996 drug study by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in which his daughter, now partially disabled, took part."

►March 19, 2004 - FG Mends Fence with Kano over German Leader - ThisDay Online - "Failure of both the state government official and the delegation to address the press fueled speculation that their visit was in connection with continuation of desperate move to persuade the state governor to change his firm stance on the controversial polio vaccination."

►March 21, 2004 - Flu vaccination campaign under way - Reuters/Radio New Zealand via http://onenews.nzoom.com

►March 21, 2004 - Uganda Stops Chick Imports Over Flu - New Vision via www.allafrica.com

►March 20, 2004 - Update On Avian Flu - Farming Life

►March 20, 2004 - Japan's bird flu may be from South Korea - UPI via www.menafn.com

►March 21, 2004 - Bird flu occurs anew in South Korea - Xinhuanet via China View

►March 21, 2004 - Migrating birds spread bird flu? Japanese and Korean bird flu strain match - Medical News Today

►March 12, 2004 - Triton's nanotechnology designed to take on tumors - CEO looks to raise $18M second round to get it to clinical trials - Boston Business Journal

►March 21, 2004 - Some diabetics don't know it, group says - Times Picayune via www.nola.com

►March 21, 2004 - Study: Bowel disease is linked to clot risk - www.indystar.com

►March 21, 2004 - Allergies? Sinusitis? How to Tell the Difference - To get proper treatment, it's important to know what's what - HealthDay News

►March 20, 2004 - Hepatitis 'A' Centre of Infection in Herculaneum - www.agi.it

►March 21, 2004 - Hepatitis A outbreak linked to deli - 32 infected since January - The Boston Globe

►March 20, 2004 - Meningitis outbreak in Nigeria - AP via Times of India

►March 21, 2004 - Mercury standards already pose danger - editorial - San Antonio Express-News via www.mysanantonio.com

►March 21, 2004 - EPA shouldn't ease standards on mercury emissions - letter - Northwest Indiana News via www.thetimesonline.com

►March 21, 2004 - The bad math of mercury - opinion (requires registration) - Orlando Sentinel

►March 21, 2004 - Advances in the Treatment of Immunodeficiency Disorders Released at the 2004 AAAAI Annual Meeting - press release - American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology via PRNewswire via Yahoo!