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Bioterrorism Watch supplement
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Full January 2005 issue in PDF
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Congress halts the enforcement of annual tuberculosis fit-test rule
Federal enforcement of the annual fit-testing requirement has been halted for at least a year, as Congress intervened in the tuberculosis-related rule. Meanwhile, new draft federal TB guidelines leave some ambiguity by recommending periodic fit-testing, while acknowledging regulations that require annual fit-testing. -
Absenteeism may hit hospitals this flu season
Brace yourself for a tough flu season. Absenteeism could become an issue for many hospitals as unvaccinated employees with respiratory symptoms miss days of work. -
Hospital employees answer the ‘Fitness Challenge’
It was a challenge issued to the beat of a step class, the pace of a race walk, the strength of a stream of push-ups. The reward for the team who won the Fitness Challenge at DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, GA: $1,000 to split and a paid day off. -
The WHI and Cognition
The womens health initiative reported their results on cognition and dementia combining the canceled estrogen-only arm with the canceled estrogen-progestin arm of the randomized trial; the data are derived from an ancillary study of the trial entitled The Womens Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS). -
Full August issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Watch: The Importance of Publishing Negative Clinical Studies
Cognitive Effects of Estrogen Therapy; Vitamin Therapy and Restenosis; Echinacea and the Common Cold; Effects of Paxil in Children Under 18; FDA Actions. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Full May 3, 2004, Issue in PDF