HSLS Update

The Red Book Now Available Online

The Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases from the American Academy of Pediatrics, also known as the Red Book, is now available online.  The Red Book is highly valued for reliable information on the “manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of some 200 childhood diseases.”  The Red Book Online includes new and updated chapters, special alerts and news, an expanded image collection of over 2,000 images, and up-to-date vaccine status information.  A search engine allows for the full text of the current 2006 electronic book to be searched, as well as archives back to 2000.  A significant advantage of the online version is interim updating, as the print edition is only published every three years. 

The Report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases was first published as an eight-page pamphlet in 1938, but has expanded in each of the 27 editions since, until it now contains over 900 pages in five sections with contributions from hundreds of experts across the United States. 

To access the Red Book Online, type "Red Book" into the search.HSLS quick search box at <www.hsls.pitt.edu/> or access it directly at <http://aapredbook.aappublications.org/>, (for those located on the Oakland campus).

--Andrea Ketchum