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The American Society of Health-System Pharma-cists (ASHP) in Bethesda, MD, released in May a draft of the goals and objectives for pharmacy practice in health systems to be achieved by 2015.
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Although spinal injuries occur infrequently, a delay in the detection of thoracolumbar trauma may have devastating consequences for a child. It is critical that the emergency physican be familiar with injury patterns that may result in this type of injury.
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The breakdown of pregnant women inadvertently vaccinated in smallpox immunization programs is as follows.
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More than 100 pregnant women have been exposed inadvertently to smallpox vaccine since immunization programs began in U.S. hospitals, the military, and clinical trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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The Institute Medicine advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pause its smallpox immunization efforts
to permit time for the following developments.
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The draft guidance on financial conflicts of interest and research published March 31, 2003, in the Federal Register offers more questions to be considered than specifics to be followed.
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It started out a simple premise: protect patients privacy by securing their health information. But the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is raising some concerns, not just among primary caregivers and treatment facilities.
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College student populations may offer a plentiful and accessible source for human subjects research, but IRB and university research officials say that a variety of issues arise when students are used.
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