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At the 59th annual meeting of the american society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 3-7, 2011, Dr. Paul Arguin, head of the Domestic Malaria Unit, presented Malaria Updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Routine lead screening of a 1-year-old u.s.-born son of Cambodian immigrants living in New York revealed an elevated blood lead level (10 mcg/dL).
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Although undeniably useful, gram stains have become less accessible to physicians in an era when clinicians go to the laboratory infrequently to view specimens and hospital laboratories move off-site. This brief report describes a Honolulu hospital's approach to this problem.
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On Oct. 27, 2010, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) approved updated recommendations for the use of quadrivalent (serogroup A, C, Y, and W-135) meningococcal conjugated vaccines (Menveo®, Novartis; and Menactra®, Sanofi Pasteur) for adolescents and persons with high risk for meningococcal disease.
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It is notoriously difficult to convince surgeons to change their methods and tools in the operating room to improve sharps safety. But in Tennessee, intransigence is apt to lead to a citation from the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Everyone agrees that health care workers should receive the influenza vaccine each year to protect themselves and their patients.
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Cindy Luebbering, RN, a senior health systems manager and occupational health nurse at the Cincinnati, OH-based Proctor & Gamble Company, says that her goal is to give employees information on how to get healthy, stay healthy, and how to live a full and healthy life if diagnosed with a health condition."
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If an employee reports shoulder soreness, this could be caused by her job, sports activities she does on weekends, or both. "Risk factors and the mechanism of injury are often both unclear with repetitive strain injuries," says Susan Murphey, BS, CECD, president of Essential WorkWellness in Shoreline, WA.
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