Engaging inner city middle school students in development of an energy expenditure food label.

Using food labels can be an important component of maintaining healthy weight, but young adolescents are unlikely to have the requisite skills to make use of food labeling information. Our objectives were to determine knowledge about calories and comprehension and use of the Nutrition Facts Panel among a group of inner city African-American and Hispanic middle school students, and to engage the students in refining a Calorie Converter energy expenditure food label. We used quantitative and qualitative methods including questionnaires, focus groups, and hands-on graphic design activities.

Herpes simplex virus type 2 of the palm as an AIDS-defining complex.

Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HHV-2) is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world. In the immunocompromised host, including patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), herpes simplex virus is at high risk for reactivation. We present a woman with HIV and a large ulcer of the palm determined to be HHV-2.

Necrolytic acral erythema in an adolescent.

In 1996 el Darouti and Abu el Ela described seven Egyptian patients with similar cutaneous lesions and proposed necrolytic acral erythema (NAE) as a distinct entity of the necrolytic erythema family. Since then, NAE has emerged as a cutaneous manifestation of hepatitis C virus infection and taken its place in the literature as a marker for systemic disease. NAE initially presents with burning, pruritic eruptions of circumscribed, erythematous papules with flaccid vesiculation on the acral surfaces universally affecting the dorsum of the feet.