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Researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, have developed a novel approach to assessing the potential social risks to participants in a research study before the study commences.
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Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, remembers the stick as if it happened in slow-motion, the details still clear to her 12 years later.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.
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Investigators analyzing data from 1996 to 2007 of more than 35,000 HIV-infected patients have found that people appear to have higher CD4 counts when entering care now than they did 14 years ago. But they're not high enough.
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Investigators at the Bethesda, MD-based Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences have found strong evidence that HIV has become more virulent over the past 25 years.
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Even 20-plus years into the North American HIV epidemic among injection drug users (IDUs) it is theoretically possible to eliminate the epidemic, dramatically cutting transmission among this aÿ
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(Editor's Note: This is a two-part series on keeping patients safe during lengthy waits in the ED. This month, we give practices to avoid missing a patient's deterioration in waiting areas, how to enlist the help of others in visualizing patients, and what to tell family members to watch for. Next month, we'll report on how to avoid blocked views of patients and which patients are at particularly high risk for sudden deterioration.)
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Remember the days before sensitive serum pregnancy tests and 24-hour ultrasound availability? Remember performing a culdocentesis to determine if the patient was stable for discharge? I do, and I don't miss them.