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Data early on in the pandemic influenza outbreak suggested that most severely ill patients with Influenza A were not suffering from bacterial co-infection.
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At the recent 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene held in Washington D.C., Dr. Patricia Conrad of the University of CaliforniaDavis School of Veterinary Medicine provided an excellent presentation during the Scientific Session on Protozoa entitled Tracking Toxoplasma gondii from Land to Sea.
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Kreider and Cohen studied more than 13,000 internationally adopted children ages 5 to 15 and more than 155,000 domestically adopted children ages 5 to 15; they then extrapolated findings from this sample to the entire U.S. population.
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Four adults with either probable or definite yellow fever (YF) vaccine-associated meningitis or meningoencephalitis were hospitalized, yielding an incidence of 9.9/100,000 vaccine doses (95% CI = 2.7-25.4/100,000).
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While Rebecca Walker, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Social Medicine Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she does not "mean any one thing" by the use of the term "justice," she does have justice concerns regarding the use of psychosocial criteria in determining individuals who are selected to receive organs from donation for transplantation.
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A surgeon and a pediatrician are among the four American physicians have been named as recipients of the first Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Awards.
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With the advent of consumer-directed health care (CDHC), two professors argue, contrary to the common notion that physicians should ignore financial considerations when treating patients, that it is entirely appropriate for physicians to be sensitive to a patient's financial position when a patient is paying out of pocket.
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The Montana Supreme Court issued a ruling just as 2009 ended, on Dec. 31, which determined Montanans have the right under that state's public policy to seek a physician's aid in assisted suicide, with no threat of sanction or legal action against the physician.