Report: AAP’s New Recommendations for RSV Drug Create Controversy

July 31, 2014

The drug was approved in 1998 for use in high-risk children, based on research showing benefits for certain children, including premature infants born at 35 weeks or earlier. The medicine is given in a series of injections, and is a costly treatment.

The AAP has recommended scaling back on the use of the medicine, saying that medical evidence shows that the drug benefits very few children other…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

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