Influenza vaccination during pregnancy prevents influenza among women and their infants but remains underused among pregnant women. We aimed to quantify the risk of antenatal influenza and examine its association with perinatal outcomes.

We did a prospective cohort study in pregnant women in India, Peru, and Thailand. Before the 2017 and…[Read more]

Synthetic biology has the potential to bring forth advanced genetic devices for applications in healthcare and biotechnology. However, accurately predicting the behavior of engineered genetic devices remains difficult due to lack of modularity, wherein a device’s output does not depend only on its intended inputs but also on its context. One…[Read more]

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) remains a global public health concern, which is potentially growing in Latin America, due to an expected shift from high to intermediate endemicity levels. The use of HAV vaccines in pediatric national immunization programs (NIPs), either as a 2-dose or a 1-dose schedule, has been explored in Latin American countries;…[Read more]

This is a systems problem, not a time-management problem. The USPSTF provides a set of recommendations with strong evidence of positive impact. It is imperative that our health care system is designed to deliver.Objectives. To examine how physical health symptoms developed and resolved in response to Hurricane Katrina.Methods. We used data from a…[Read more]