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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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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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The continuing emergence of a highly toxigenic strain of Clostridium difficile in the community has raised a troubling question for public health investigators: Is C. diff becoming a foodborne pathogen?
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A group of experts recently convened in San Francisco for a special discussion on the changing epidemiology of Clostridium difficile.
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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.
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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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