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Pediatrics program just the beginning of safety overhaul ; Duke identifies corrective plan of action for patient safety
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With recent surveillance data showing increases in the rates of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), health care professionals need to remember to screen patients for curable STDs and counsel both HIV-negative and HIV-positive patients about how STDs increase the risk of transmitting the virus.
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Researchers looking into early sexual behavior and attitudes about sex among youths have found that alcohol use does play a role in sexual initiation. They also have found that children have different attitudes about sexual behavior even as young as preteens.
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Ten million people pass through the United States correctional system each year, and 2 million of these people are incarcerated, while a large proportion of the remaining 8 million spend at least a little time behind bars.
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The HIV-prevention community could be forgiven for a little paranoia at the beginning of 2004.
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HIV-prevention researchers say the current administration and Congress are undermining scientifically sound behavioral research through political scrutiny of investigators who are working to understand the transmission of a deadly epidemic.
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The heat is off of nursing homes or at least turned down from a boil to simmer. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) administrator John Henshaw announced that the National Emphasis Program for nursing homes has ended.
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Why do so few health care workers get the flu vaccine each year? What can be done about it?