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Guilford Pharmaceuticals has initiated a Phase III clinical development program for Aquavan injection, a novel sedative/hypnotic that is a proprietary water-soluble prodrug of propofol.
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Iron sucrose injection (Venofer); Sodium ferric gluconate complex (Ferrlecit),referred to as iron gluconate, and Iron dextran (DexFerrum/Infed).
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In an increasingly small infectious-disease world characterized by speed, connectivity, and globalization, infection control professionals are emerging as the critical link between clinical care and public health, said Julie Gerberding, MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Rather than a dreaded, unnecessary task, a new requirement to conduct a root-cause analysis (RCA) for fatal and impairing infections is an idea whose time has come in the new era of patient safety, said Denise Murphy, RN, MPH, CIC, chief of patient safety at Barnes Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis.
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New draft patient isolation guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include the following performance measures.
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Quarantine is depressing and anxiety provoking
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To hear AIDS advocates tell it, ever since the late 1990s when the first antiretroviral cocktails were prescribed, there never has been enough money for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to provide drugs to all of the HIV-infected and uninsured people who need them.
