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Expect Zika Return, Reinforce HCW Safety
Employee health professionals should prepare for the return of Zika virus, as the CDC expects the mosquito-borne infection threat to return to the U.S. as the warmer months arrive.
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Canada Faces a Surge in Healthcare Violence
While OSHA continues to promulgate a violence prevention regulation, our neighbors to the north are dealing with a similar problem of threatened healthcare workers.
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Training for Toxic Work Culture Should Start in Nursing School
While often seen as separate and disturbingly distinct, incivility, bullying, and violence in healthcare are actually connected across a common culture of toxicity.
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FDA Greenlights First Drug for Primary Progressive MS
Advocates called it “a real game changer.”
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Report: Opioid Misuse Fuels Rise in Heroin Addiction
New data show huge increase in drug dependence among white, low-income Americans over past decade.
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Ventricular Tachycardia, Supraventricular Tachycardia With Right Bundle Branch Block, or Something Else?
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: recognizing signs of binge eating disorder; a closer look an antisocial behavioral problems; and treating sickle cell pain.
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Desmopressin Acetate Nasal Spray (Noctiva)
Desmopressin nasal spray is indicated for the treatment of nocturia due to nocturnal polyuria in adults who awaken at least twice per night to void.
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Polyneuropathy in the Metabolic Syndrome
The metabolic syndrome, independent of the diagnosis of diabetes, is associated with the development of polyneuropathy.
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Pioglitazone Improves Fibrosis Scores in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Patients With and Without Diabetes
In a meta-analysis of eight studies (five pioglitazone, three rosiglitazone) involving 516 patients with biopsy-proven nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, pioglitazone was found to improve fibrosis between six and 24 months.