Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management
Measles and rubella officially eliminated: What does that mean?
Measles and rubella officially eliminated: What does that mean?
![measles rash](/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_image_16_7_/public/2017-11/measles%20rash.jpg?itok=5IDvxFl4)
In this article, IMAC director Nikki Turner provides hot-off-the-press news from the WHO’s SAGE on Immunization which met recently in Geneva, and New Zealand’s recent measles and rubella elimination status and mumps outbreak
1. Meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization, April 2017 – conclusions and recommendations. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 2017 Jun 2;92(22):301–20.
2. Meeting of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization, October 2017 – conclusions and recommendations. Wkly Epidemiol Rec 2016 Dec 2;91(48):561–82.
3. Measles and rubella global update, SAGE meeting Geneva, October 2017. Presentation by A Dabbagh.
4. Auckland Regional Public Health Service. Managing the mumps outbreak. Available online at http://www.arphs.govt.nz/managing-the-mumps-outbreak (accessed 19 October, 2017).