The challenge for the practitioner is to balance incomplete evidence about efficacy of medications in frail older people against the problems related to adverse drug reactions without denying people potentially valuable pharmacotherapeutic interventions. Prescribers need to be diligent in reviewing medications periodically as well as when new medications are being considered. Review of updated ...

Yet without diligent efforts to maintain immunization programs in the United States and to strengthen them worldwide, vaccinepreventable diseases will remain a threat to children. As illustrations, consider the 2010 California outbreak of whooping cough where over 8,000 cases were reported to the state and where there were 10 infant deaths, or measles, which takes the lives of more than 100,000...