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The access career ladder at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC, grew out of two realizations, says the assistant vice president for patient registration: Access employees who dont have the desire or aptitude to be a supervisor or manager need a way to experience career growth, and the opportunity for such advancement is a good way to promote employee retention.
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One unintended consequence of the nations health care safety net which includes public hospitals, community health centers, local clinics, and some primary care physicians is that it is crowding out, or replacing, other insurance options for unmarried childless adults, according to new data from a research associate professor at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
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A new study finds that 60% of HIV patients on stable therapy with detectable viral replication have a rate of new HIV mutations of about 1.5 mutations per year.
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No one is worried that a financially strapped federal government might kill Ryan White Care Act funding, but AIDS advocates say they are concerned about what will happen with the bill in a slightly different political environment this year.
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Two potential candidates in the microbicide research pipeline are set to be examined in clinical trials, with research to focus on the safety and acceptability in healthy women and women infected with HIV.
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While clinicians and researchers are seeing increasing numbers of HIV patients with multidrug-resistant virus, there are indications that some existing drug combinations continue to be potent against resistant virus.
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Two separate studies have found that some types of HIV drug resistance have declined or leveled off at the same time others have increased.
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There is new hope for a cost-efficient treatment for HIV-1 infected patients who no longer respond to protease inhibitor (PI) treatment due to multidrug resistance.