Articles Tagged With: prevention
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Coalition Calls for More Federal Investment in Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention
Groups ask Congress for additional money for research, innovation, surveillance, and stewardship.
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Modest Improvements in Mortality Rate Disparities in Rural Areas
Black adults living in rural areas in the United States still are more likely to die from diabetes, high blood pressure compared to white adults.
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What Causes Stroke in Young Patients?
A patient might be young, but he or she could be living with serious, unaddressed medical conditions that can lead to disaster.
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Pandemic Raises Profile of IPs; Will Resources Follow?
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been the biggest challenge in the history of modern infection prevention, but it also has raised the profile and importance of infection preventionists in a way that should secure future program resources.
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Measles Outbreak Cost Public Millions of Dollars
The 2019 re-emergence of this vaccine-preventable disease cost a single U.S. county more than $3 million.
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Ethics Services Taking First Steps Toward Preventive Work
Preventive ethics work, aimed at topics of high institutional concern, shows how ethicists can not only comment on issues but also sometimes prevent them from occurring.
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‘Blatant Wrongdoing’: Wrongful Prolongation of Life Cases Surge
An expert witness who has testified in multiple wrongful prolongation of life cases and has advised health systems on how to avoid these cases shares helpful advice in the Q&A.
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Prednisone vs. Placebo in Short-Term Prevention of Episodic Cluster Headaches
Prednisone, given at 100 mg for five days and then tapering by 20 mg every three days, is a safe and effective short-term prevention for episodic cluster headaches while waiting for longer-acting preventive agents to be initiated.
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FDA, CDC Sign Off on Third COVID-19 Vaccine
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine is the first single-shot solution to receive an agency emergency use authorization.
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Subclinical Influenza Infection in Healthcare Workers
Despite all precautions, influenza vaccination, handwashing campaigns, and messaging to staff not to come to work with respiratory symptoms, healthcare workers are an important source of nosocomial influenza and respiratory infection. Now, it is happening with COVID-19.