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In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health assessed the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens among nonhospital-based registered nurses (RNs), and found that nearly one out of 10 of the more than 1,100 nurse participants reported at least one needlestick injury in the previous 12 months.
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The Hospice Payment System Fact Sheet, which offers providers information about the Medicare hospice benefit, is now available from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network.
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Most cases of thrombocytopenia seen are expected. Patients are known to have hematological disease or are receiving chemotherapy. At times, however, the physician is confronted with an unexpected laboratory finding in an asymptomatic patient, or with a patient who is bleeding. The challenge, as usual, is to determine the need for acute treatment and the appropriate disposition.
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Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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BOSTON How often do you hear one of the world's most renowned and veteran physicians describe the state of knowledge in his own subspecialty as "overwhelmingly ignorant" especially if that physician is the organizer of an outstanding annual conference focused on that subspecialty?
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Ablation Frontiers (Carlsbad, California) reported receiving FDA approval to extend U.S. enrollment in its clinical trial for interventional treatment of chronic AF.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida The field of cardiothoracic surgery is clearly in transition not a new development but one heightened by a variety of pressures, professional, technological, political and economic. This assertion was highlighted in a variety of ways at the organizations annual meeting here in late January.
