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West nile virus (WNV) infection is a growing epidemic that impacts more persons and more aspects of our health care system yearly.
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Several important papers have been published in the last 2 months, none more important than the realization that breast cancer rates have dropped precipitously since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002.
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Osteoporosis is defined as a skeletal disorder characterized by a decline in bone strength leading to enhanced risk of fracture.
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The death of a healthy woman due to community-associated Clostridium difficile underscores the ominously changing epidemiology of a pathogen rarely noted for causing serious infections beyond the hospital.
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The number of medical procedures performed in physician offices, clinics and other ambulatory care settings continues to increase, but these settings still operate with little regulatory oversight and there are few "drivers" to improve infection control and patient safety, experts warn.
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Hospitalized patients with severe C. difficile-associated diarrhea were more likely to recover if they received vancomycin rather than the antibiotic metronidazole, which is typically the first-line therapy, an epidemiologist reports.