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What is the role of raloxifene for the treatment of osteoporosis and breast cancer prevention? Raloxifene is a selective estrogen-receptor modulator similar to tamoxifen.
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Infection control professionals are facing an unprecedented wave of legislative and regulatory activity as individual states and federal agencies move beyond demands for data disclosure and actually threaten to dictate clinical practice.
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The limited consideration for treating patients outside of hospitals and the lack of guidance to nonhospital health care providers is the "greatest weakness" of the federal government's pandemic influenza plan, a leading physician group charges.
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Planning and effective delivery of care in outpatient settings is critical to the nation's pandemic flu preparedness, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states. Though a physician's group recently questioned the adequacy of HHS planning for nonhospital settings, the HHS does have some guidance for outpatient care.
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Perception may be as important as reality when it comes to preventing needlestick injuries to health care workers. The more workers perceive that their facility has a "culture of safety," the less likely they are to sustain a needlestick, reports Scott Grytdal, MPH, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The editors do us a fascinating and frightening favor by reprinting this historical firsthand account by a physician-in-training facing the 1918 flu pandemic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
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Two distinctly different infections are sparking common concern about their virulence and alarming increase: A new strain of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and the increasing threat of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(CA-MRSA).
