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Full October 2005 Issue in PDF
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Pandemic fears raise stakes for hospitals
For hospitals that want to create their own stockpile of Tamiflu as a part of pandemic influenza preparedness, infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, has one comment: Good luck. -
Tough training rules for TB skin tests
Effective tuberculin skin testing relies on the proper administration of the test. -
Full October 2005 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Watch: The Use of Prophylactic Antibiotics for Neutropenia
Is It Hot In Here?; Homeopathy vs Conventional Medicine; FDA Actions -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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First do no harm? Health care workers imperil patients by snubbing flu shots
In cold fact, some unknown number of hospital patients and nursing home residents die of influenza year in, year out because they were treated by health care workers who declined flu vaccination. -
Flu truth for health care: Lead or be lambasted
The authors of a recently published provocative paper advocating mandatory influenza vaccinations for health care workers underscored seven primary truths to support the controversial recommendation. -
Ghost of SARS haunts Toronto in LTC outbreak
Initially sensationalized as a mystery bug, the pathogen that caused a recent outbreak that claimed 17 lives in an Toronto nursing home turned out to be one of the usual suspects: Legionella pneumophila. -
IDSA Conference: Iraq bug causing hospital outbreaks linked to soldiers
Soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have acquired a drug-resistant bacteria that is fueling nosocomial outbreaks in military hospitals, an epidemiologist recently reported in San Francisco at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.