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The first potential HIV vaccine heading down the track has been derailed, but vaccine experts are optimistic that success still may be possible with some competing approaches, including some that are just getting started.
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Research presented at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in February in San Francisco, offered a look at some of the more interesting and promising vaccine research that is under way across the world.
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Just as HIV prevention programs are not a one-size-fits-all solution, so also must adherence interventions be tailored for the particular clinic, community, and population they serve.
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Researchers at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, have developed an extensive intervention aimed at improving HIV medical adherence among people most at risk of not taking their drugs or not showing up for medical appointments.
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While states are coming under fire for not spending as much tobacco settlement money on smoking cessation programs for youth as they should, the American Legacy Foundations 2002 National Youth Tobacco Survey indicates that the prevalence of current smoking among high-school students declined in 2002.
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Although Zeena Engelke, RN, MS, has multiple job duties as patient education manager of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, she has managed to incorporate direct teaching into her position as well.
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While an elderly man on the anticoagulant drug warfarin was waiting to get blood drawn at his physicians office, he was handed some educational materials about the drug.
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A behavioral health care center in Mississippi is proving that a concentrated effort to reduce restraint can yield great improvements not only for the patients but also for the bottom line of the health care facility.
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Medical malpractice insurance premiums are 17.1% lower in states that have capped court awards, although the lack of such tort reform measures in other states does not fully explain recent jumps in what physicians pay to cover the cost of malpractice suits, says Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, chairman of the health policy and management department at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta.
