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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains provisions for offering financial incentives for wellness participation in workplaces, which is good news for occupational health. However, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society have created a coalition to persuade federal regulators to prohibit financial incentives for Health Risk Assessments when family history items are involved.
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The American Medical Association convened the biannual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago in June with more than 500 delegates from a variety of societies and organizations.
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The National Medication Error Reporting Program (operated by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices [ISMP]) recently issued an alert on the potential risk of medication errors associated with dosing colistimethate for injection.
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In this issue: FDA issues multiple drug safety alerts; ARBs and cancer risk; and FDA actions.
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Seven patients were identified when DAP-ASBL therapy was used to eradicate persistent MRSA bacteremia. Isolates from 3 patients were available for in vitro study.
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a common opportunistic infection (OI) in AIDS patients. Laboratory diagnosis of this life-threatening infection is based primarily upon identifying P. jirovecii cysts in respiratory secretions, a technique that is variably sensitive and requires adequate patient effort (for induced sputum examination) or an invasive test (bronchoscopy); both are quite operator dependent.
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By 2007, the prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance among N. gonorrhoeae had become so widespread in the United States that the CDC recommended against use of drugs of that class in the treatment of gonorrhea.
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The United States Perinatal HIV Surveillance Project tracks HIV-infected pregnant women in care in 15 locations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.