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Here are key recommendations from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for preventing and controlling influenza in health care facilities:
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If an 11-year-old girl comes to your ED with a radius-ulnar fracture, she is X-rayed, casted, and discharged home a minor injury with minor inconveniences.
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Greenfield RH. Stress and multiple sclerosis. Altern Med Alert 2004;7(5):59-60.
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Stokes MJ. Soy and menopausal symptoms. Altern Med Alert 2004;7(5):49-55.
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ViaCell will begin to enroll patients in a Phase I/II clinical trial of CB001, a highly purified population of stem cells that has been isolated from umbilical cord blood and multiplied using the companys patented Selective Amplification technology.
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Abbott Laboratories is not backing down from its decision to increase the price of ritonavir (Norvir) by 500% monthly for patients who take 100 mg a day. Ritonavir is used in almost all protease inhibitor combinations for treating HIV infection.
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Researchers from Harvard Medical Schools teaching hospital in Boston decided to test if they could encourage physicians to switch appropriate patients from intravenous (IV) to oral (PO) medications.
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Its a year-round problem in every ED: How to limit exposure of coughing, sneezing, or sniffling patients.
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The emergency severity index (version 3) five-level triage system scores predict ED resource consumption; Outcome of patients with a final diagnosis of chest pain of undetermined origin admitted under the suspicion of acute coronary syndrome: A report from the Rochester epidemiology project; Utilization of the emergency department after self-inflicted injury.
