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The following publications and web sites provide information on cultural diversity and health care.
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Home health managers may be overlooking the social importance of sharing meals or food with patients.
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Moving to clear up the considerable confusion of the last flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has drafted new guidelines for health care workers who receive the live attenuated influenza vaccine.
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Health care workers need an annual influenza vaccine to protect themselves and their patients, advise national infection control officials.
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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that children 6 to 23 months of age be vaccinated annually against influenza.
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Sources of funding for pharmaceutical research has come under scrutiny in the last decade as academic and government sources of funding have become increasingly scarce and the pharmaceutical industry has become the main source of research dollars. But the issue of objectivity has been raised, and some have even suggested that negative studies, that is studies that show a drug in an unfavorable light, may never be published. The American Medical Association has recently tackled this issue.
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Leflunomides immunomodulatory activity derives from its action as a competitive inhibitor of the rate-limiting enzyme necessary for pyrimidine synthesis.
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Evidence suggests that Erythropoietin acts by stimulating neuroprotective pathways, including the protein kinase B cascade and the transcription factor nuclear factor-kB pathway, to activate antiapoptotic and antioxidant factors.
