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A recent examination of the Medicare database illustrates that survival rates after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remained unchanged from 1992 to 2005.
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Critical hypoxemia in acute respiratory failure may be defined as a degree of impairment in tissue oxygenation that in and of itself, and separately from the primary cause of the respiratory failure threatens the life of the patient.
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Genentech has issued the following Dear Healthcare Professional letter for users of Fuzeon and certain other injection products:
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In this study, 783 HIV-infected Indian mother-infant pairs participated in a randomized clinical trial comparing NVP given for 6 weeks vs. single-dose NVP to prevent MTCT of HIV among breast-fed infants.
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While the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been approved for use in men, how many are open to receiving it? New research indicates men might be more willing to receive vaccination when they learn the vaccine can prevent cancer.
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HIV clinicians are seeing increasing numbers of patients who are developing cancers associated with infectious agents, particularly in the areas of the oropharynx and genitals, researchers say.
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With unprecedented numbers of HIV patients pushed onto waiting lists to receive antiretroviral (ART) drugs from AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs), the bottom rung safety nets are barely holding, experts say.
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The once rare but very real risk of occupational HIV transmission continues to fade in the face of a host of prevention measures that include needle safety devices and post-exposure prophylaxis.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is developing formal guidelines on preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV in men who have sex with men (MSM). In the interim, the CDC has issued the following recommendations to guide clinical practice.