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A recent court ruling in a lawsuit may mean that home health agencies will be required to provide notice to Medicare patients whenever services are reduced or discontinued.
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People caring for profoundly ill children must meet their patients social, psychological, and spiritual needs as well as their medical needs, say the authors of an article published in the April 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the third documented clinical isolate of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) from a patient in the United States. There are also troubling indications that emerging VRSA may not be detected by commonly used automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing, CDC warns.
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Fueled in part by the third case of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in the United States, William Jarvis, MD, urges more aggressive hospital surveillance measures than those currently recommended nationally by the CDC.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiologys (APIC) position paper on disclosure of nosocomial infection rates includes key points summarized in this article.
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According to UNAIDS in Geneva, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is growing despite the worlds attention and efforts at increasing prevention and treatment efforts.
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UCB Pharma Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration recently issued a Dear health care professional letter advising health care professionals of the risk of dispensing errors between lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra), an antiretroviral, and levetiracetam (Keppra), an antiepileptic drug.
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Research in an inner-city population has showed that many of the people, particularly women, diagnosed with HIV infection continued to engage in unprotected sex after their diagnosis and prevention education.
