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Fit-testing of N95 filtering facepiece respirators could become significantly quicker under a new protocol proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Survey your employees about their health status, and the results you find may be eye-opening. Sutter Health, a Sacramento, CA-based health system, discovered that 30% of its employees were obese and an equal number were overweight.
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Your employees have devoted their lives to caring for others, but unfortunately, they often aren't very good at taking care of their own health. They may be sedentary, or obese, or they have undiagnosed hypertension or high cholesterol. Those health risk factors equate to rising medical costs and a greater risk of injury.
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On Feb. 4, 2008, the FDA granted tentative approval for a generic formulation of atazanavir sulfate capsules, 100 mg, 150 mg, and 200 mg, manufactured by Emcure Pharmaceuticals of Pune, India. The application was reviewed under expedited review provisions for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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When you counsel on protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), where does the female condom fit into your message? While the female condom represents a woman-controlled form of protection against HIV and other STDs, its use has lagged in the United States since its introduction in 1993.
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Despite public health initiatives pushing routine HIV testing, too many people infected with the virus are diagnosed later in the disease, leading to poor health outcomes, a study suggests.
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The HIV epidemic has disproportionately impacted people with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems, creating some inherent outreach and prevention targeting problems for providers and public health professionals.
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In what might be called the post-HAART era, there is an encouraging new trend of clinicians seeing greater numbers of patients who have undetectable viral loads, according to an HIV clinician who has been in the trenches for over two decades.
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Physicians need to understand the pathophysiology, preventative strategies, and acute management of patients with altitude sickness. This article presents an overview of the spectrum of altitude illness, diagnosis, and current management strategies, as well as preventative strategies.
