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Investigators have discontinued the FEM-PrEP study of oral emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Truvada, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA) to prevent HIV infection in women in Africa after interim results indicated the research would be unlikely to prove effectiveness in the study population.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission have issued a joint call to remove products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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Results of a new study indicate patients who have tested positive for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) but don't have symptoms or genital lesions still experience virus shedding during subclinical episodes.
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COPD in Never Smokers; Early Prostate Cancer: Prostatectomy vs Watchful Waiting; Dietary Vitamin D and Incident Diabetes; Functional Cobalamin Deficiency in Diabetes; Should Leukotriene Antagonists Have Higher Priority for Asthma Control?; Selenium Impacts Orbitopathy in Graves Disease;
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Paid caregivers make it possible for seniors to remain living in their homes.
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What content should go on electronic readers, such as iPads and Nooks, purchased for use in community health libraries and facility-based resource centers?
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When you're troubled by an ethical dilemma, don't go it alone. Reach out to your peers and your professional organizations for help, the experts say.
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Hospitals are working more proactively in forging relationships with the next-level-of-care providers, the experts say.