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There has been recent emphasis in cardiology literature highlighting the importance of recognizing a new sub-specialty within the field, aimed at treating adult patients who have survived after having congenital heart disease repair.
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Americans use many medications for countless medical conditions, spending about $100 billion annually. Unfortunately, partly because we use so many medications, medication error has become an important medical topic in the 21st century.
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A rapid, ongoing expansion in the number of high-containment biodefense laboratories throughout the nation is raising serious questions about the safety of lab workers, the risk to the public, and the lack of government oversight to prevent accidents and security breaches.
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As the number of high-containment labs undergoes an unprecedented expansion in the United States, the question of relative risk is coming to the forefront.
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An exercise designed to test laboratory readiness for a bioterrorism incident turned into a real-life disaster of another sort when specimen mislabeling and flagrant breaches in infection control resulted in numerous exposures to an attenuated vaccine strain of Brucella abortus RB51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is distributing a new-generation smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000 (Acambis, Inc.; Cambridge, MA), to civilian laboratory personnel, the military, and state public health preparedness programs.
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As this issue of Bioterrorism Watch went to press, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was investigating a case of ricin exposure in Las Vegas. The CDC said "preliminary results of environmental testing at laboratories in Nevada have tested positive for ricin."
