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The FDA recently approved a new class of antiretroviral drug for treatment of patients with resistant HIV infections.
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Rheumatoid arthritis should be recognized as a marker of increased risk for myocardial infarction.
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IRBs now have a new legal worry the recent emergence of lawsuits aimed squarely at individual IRB members, rather than just at the institution or the IRB as a whole.
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The public is increasingly concerned about the integrity and ethical conduct of research. Now with the release of draft guidance Financial Relationship and Interests in Research Involving Human Subjects: Guidance for Human Subject protection, published on March 31, the discussion will take on greater urgency and importance.
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Reducing the risk of serious nosocomial infections is being considered as a 2004 national patient safety goal by the Joint Commission.
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In an era of patient safety, the author urged national expansion of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System. Despite its flaws and limited scope, the NNIS system may be a model for patient safety data collection.
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The public health response to SARS has been strikingly rapid on many fronts, but a global pandemic of a new infectious disease still is a real possibility, the author warns.
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To identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in ambulatory care settings, targeted screening questions concerning fever, respiratory symptoms, close contacts with a SARS suspect case patient, and recent travel should be included at triage or as soon as possible after patient arrival, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
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Five health care workers in the United States have contracted suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but timely and thorough infection control precautions appear to be holding the emerging infection at bay in the United States.