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Observations of those patients recovering from Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Vietnam and Thailand who developed a discrete neurological syndrome led to a prospective study, which described the clinical features and associations of postmalarial neurological syndrome (PMNS).
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is an acute life-threatening condition, with an incidence of one to six cases per 1 million person-years. SJS occurs most often in otherwise healthy children and young adults; males are at higher risk than females.
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Staphylococcus aureus causes 25% of nosocomial infections and is the most frequent cause of surgical site infections. The organism can be found colonized on the skin and nasopharynx and is transmitted via person-to-person contact or through inhalation of the organism.
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These drugs recently received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA):
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The Food and Drug Administrations (FDAs) Counterfeit Drug Task Force has issued its interim report outlining potential options for an approach to combat counterfeit drugs.
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Pharmacists now have another antibiotic to use in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections.
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A study published in 1999 showed that having a pharmacist on a physician rounding team in an intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs) by two-thirds.
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2003 Salary Survey Results