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In this Issue: Pioglitazone and heart disease; ARBs manufacturers spend millions to show the non-inferiority of their products compared to less expensive, generic ACE inhibitors; some athletes turn to growth hormone because it is difficult to detect; FDA Actions
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Over the past several years, Japan has been the chief source of measles importation into the United States. A total of 63 cases of measles were imported to the United States from Japan during the past 22 years.
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Comparison of Both Clinical Features and Mortality Risk Associated with Bacteremia due to Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Susceptible S. aureus. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2008;46:799-806.
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For 2 years beginning in February, 2005, every patient admitted to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) had blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) measured at the time of admission and (if still in the hospital) 4 days later. A standardized set of clinical and laboratory data was also acquired for each patient, per hospital routine.
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In this Issue: Pioglitazone and heart disease; ARBs manufacturers spend
millions to show the non-inferiority of their products compared to less
expensive, generic ACE inhibitors; some athletes turn to growth hormone
because it is difficult to detect; FDA Actions
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The Joint Commission has reiterated its standards require a clean hospital environment in light of comments and criticism at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's April 16th hearing on "Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): A Preventable Epidemic."
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The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors.
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Once primarily a problem for large tertiary care hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections increasingly are a patient safety hazard in community settings.
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The onus for much of the "needless suffering and death" caused by health care-acquired infections (HAIs) was recently ascribed to a failure of leadership by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a scathing report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).