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A clinic in Madison, WI has contacted 2,345 patients to advise them they may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens after finding an employee was inappropriately using insulin pens and finger stick devices during patient training.
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Infection preventionists at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville have developed a comprehensive glucometer cleaning protocol that other IPs may want to emulate as regulators respond to outbreaks of hepatitis B virus in diabetics and other patients.
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As mandatory flu immunization policies continue to gain momentum in health care settings, egg allergy one of the classic exemptions to the vaccine is being redefined by public health officials.
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Researchers and clinicians are achieving game-changing results that are revolutionizing HIV prevention, care and treatment, Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said recently in Rome at the IAS 2011 conference.
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At least one HIV physician is not waiting for a federal or foundation-based solution to her personal HIV doctor shortage problem. Instead she has tackled the problem by "growing" her own HIV clinician.
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A landmark new CDC study dubbed TDF2 along with a separate trial released July 13, 2011 provide the first evidence that a daily oral dose of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV infection can reduce HIV acquisition among uninfected individuals exposed to the virus through heterosexual sex, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reports.
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On May 23, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration approved telaprevir (Incivek®), an hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease inhibitor. Telaprevir is the second direct acting antiviral drug against the hepatitis C virus to be approved.
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The global AIDS response is at "a scientific watershed" that includes both dramatic recent advances against HIV and the formidable challenge of extending the benefits to impoverished nations.
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Medical schools, HIV organizations, foundations, and the federal government will need to work together to avert a crisis as the supply of HIV-trained physicians dwindles, experts say.
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There have been recurrent warnings that the United States is facing an HIV clinician shortage that could lead to a critical setback in the fight against AIDS.