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Parents in Georgia dont have to guess whether it is appropriate to rush their child to an urgent care center in the middle of the night. When they telephone the Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Call Center, they speak to an experienced pediatric nurse who, through a series of questions based on a protocol, helps them determine the suitable level of care for their child.
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The translation process of educational materials from English into Spanish or another language will be a successful project if several steps are followed, says Lynn Gordon, MPH, a health education writer in Los Altos, CA.
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The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases has developed a free on-line resource designed to help health care providers conduct influenza immunization programs for children.
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Sources of funding for pharmaceutical research has come under scrutiny in the last decade as academic and government sources of funding have become increasingly scarce and the pharmaceutical industry has become the main source of research dollars. But the issue of objectivity has been raised, and some have even suggested that negative studies, that is studies that show a drug in an unfavorable light, may never be published. The American Medical Association has recently tackled this issue and has asked the department of Health and Human Services to establish a public registry of all clinical trials in United States.
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Genetic therapies are rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical setting, with more investigators testing experimental gene delivery systems and therapies designed to fundamentally alter our bodies to prevent or treat disease.
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Efforts to improve clinical trial participation among medically underserved populations often overlook one group in particular, say some cancer researchers in California.
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The very idea of deciding when to waive parental permission or allow investigators to inquire into a teenagers sexual history and drug use may make some IRBs a little nervous. But experts in socio-behavioral research involving adolescents say such situations are common and typically involve less than normal risk.
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Several leading medical and science journals fail to enforce their own policies for disclosing financial conflicts of interest among contributing authors, according to a study released July 12 by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
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Mid-cycle self-assessments, tracer methodology, and less emphasis on examination of policy books are all signs that the new survey process implemented by the Joint Commission is truly different from the survey process of the past.
