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In this special package on responding to unexpected events, we take a look at how ED managers should plan for disasters natural or otherwise that can stretch your resources and your nerves beyond their normal limits. We consider the challenge of treating patients when there is no longer an ED, as was the case at one hospital after Hurricane Charley.
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While the mapping of the human genome provided scientists with a blueprint for understanding disease, Swedish researchers are trying to take the knowledge one step further, with the human proteome.
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Patients who participate in clinical trials not only have access to newer, experimental treatments, they also have access to more routine medical checkups and state-of-the-art technologies. For people with serious illnesses, and those without access to routine medical care, participation can make a significant difference in their care. Yet for many women, participation in medical research studies is still not an option.
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One of the challenges faced by clinicians and investigations in accumulating data that might be used for research, is to determine the rules that apply to ensure its availability if and when the research moves forward.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) rallied its members recently in support of a congressional action that could block controversial respirator fit-testing requirements.
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Infection control professionals in a group of cancer centers have developed an algorithm to help meet new patient safety goals by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Word that a portion of the 2004-2005 influenza vaccine will be not available until later in the season poses no immediate health crisis, but underscores the vulnerable nature of vaccine production and distribution in the shadow of a pandemic. Citing sterility problems during the production process, Chiron Corp. in the United Kingdom announced that it would delay delivery of its doses to the United States.
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The recently released influenza pandemic plan for the United States couldnt be much more timely because there are some pigs on the other side of the world that already may be brewing up the next global outbreak.
