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On the heels of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showing that one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and that nearly a third of American girls becomes pregnant as a teenager, scientists and other experts testified about abstinence-only programs at a Congressional hearing.
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It's no surprise to clinicians that many or most of their HIV patients are negatively impacted by major life stresses. But new research shows that HIV medication adherence among people with the most stressful lives is abysmally low.
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From 2003 through 2006, the estimated number of HIV/AIDS cases in the 33 states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting remained stable, with 18.5 cases per 100,000 population, the Centers for Disease for Control recently reported.
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Eight hiv-infected patients (mean CD4+ t cell count 622 cells/uL) who had been receiving effective HAART for an average of 8.4 years were included in this study.
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What's next in terms of research when it comes to determining the impact of the beneficial Lacto-bacillus bacteria in affecting HIV transmission?
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Researchers have given clinicians a mixed view of HIV disease and coronary heart disease risk, including evidence that protease inhibitors increase the risk of heart disease. The problem isn't the evidence, but perspective, two investigators say.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) granted The Joint Commis-sion's deeming authority for another six years, some news reports pointed to a change in the way in which supplemental findings are handled as detrimental to a home care organization's ability to achieve accreditation.
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Some of the language of ethics doesn't come naturally to nurses, according to a nurse-ethicist. But an initiative by Indianapolis-based Clarian Health aims to make ethics training and discussion second nature to the 5,000 nurses working there.
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"I just have a few questions." "I'm calling to get some information." "I don't need an appointment now. I'm just making a call for a family member."
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Every hospice is different with varying populations to serve, but an analysis of the reasons that 40% of the 99 hospices in Oklahoma served by Palmetto Government Benefit Administrators (GBA), a Medicare fiscal intermediary, hit the hospice cap shows four predominant reasons, says Greg Wood, LBSW, executive director of the Hospice of North Central Oklahoma in Ponca City and president of the Oklahoma Hospice Association: