The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors.
This past winter, influenza vaccine expert Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, got the flu. Yes, he had the flu vaccine. But this year, the vaccine was not a good match with the prevailing strains.
Make sure you know the measles immune status of your employees and have ready access to the information.
The seemingly benign use of a checklist to ensure infection control measures are followed during a clinical procedure erupted in controversy recently when a federal agency questioned whether one such program fell into the category of human research.
Most of us dread the chief complaint of weakness. This nonspecific symptom engenders a differential that ranges from malingering to fatal, from psychiatric to cancer. The finding of demonstrable muscle weakness helps, but then leads to a confusing set of relatively rare diagnoses.
In this Issue: Pioglitazone and heart disease; ARBs manufacturers spend millions to show the non-inferiority of their products compared to less expensive, generic ACE inhibitors; some athletes turn to growth hormone because it is difficult to detect; FDA Actions