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February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). The theme for NBHAAD, I Am My Brother’s and Sister's Keeper: Fight HIV/AIDS, emphasizes the role that everyone can play in HIV prevention.

Walter W. Williams, MD1, Peng-Jun Lu, MD, PhD1, Alissa O'Halloran, MSPH1, Carolyn B. Bridges, MD1,Tamara Pilishvili, MPH2, Craig M.

Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center, in collaboration with researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Harvard School of Public Health, have published a new study describing medication use during pregnancy in the United States during the period 1976–2008. You can read the abstract here. The findings from this article are summarized in the following text.

The journal Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety has published a new brief report: “Safe Lists for Medications in Pregnancy: Inadequate Evidence Base and Inconsistent Guidance from Web-based Information, 2011.” You can read the article’s abstract here. See below for a summary of the findings from this article.

Erin K. Sauber-Schatz, PhD1, Bethany A. West, MPH1, Gwen Bergen, PhD1 (Author affiliations at end of text).

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On February 4, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Eli Kern, MPH1, Nadine L. Chan, PhD1, David W. Fleming, MD1, James W.

CDC's Office on Smoking and Health offers information related to smoking and tobacco use.

Vaccines prevent an estimated 2.5 million deaths among children younger than age 5 every year. Still, 1 child dies every 20 seconds from a disease that could have been prevented by a vaccine.