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Case reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included the following details about three bacterial meningitis cases in postpartum women in New York:
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When I was an IP Newbie back in January 1990, my manager insisted literally made me go to the monthly local APIC chapter meetings.
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After some 20 years in infection prevention, Allison McGeer, MD, has weathered both the 2003 Toronto outbreak of SARS and the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza A pandemic.
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The Joint Commission's 2010 patient safety goal to prevent multidrug-resistant infections (NPSG.07.03.01) includes the following key aspects and elements of performance:
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Contrary to stereotypes, HIV in America is showing more than a touch of gray.
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Research consistently has shown that HIV-positive patients perform cognitively at lower levels than their uninfected peers, an expert says.
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Although the total number of annual perinatal HIV infections in the United States has decreased approximately 90% since 1991 and continue to fall in the most recent data set from 2004-2007 racial/ethnic disparities persist, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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"We have a national responsibility to alleviate the HIV/AIDS-related suffering of African-Americans by ensuring that they have full knowledge ofand access toall proven forms of HIV prevention, treatment and care," Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Feb. 7, 2010, commemorating the 10th annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
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On Jan. 29, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved revisions to the lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra®) package insert to include drug-drug interaction information for concurrent lopinavir/ritonavir administration with inhaled medicines such as salmeterol or salmeterol in combination with fluticasone propionate (Serevent®, Advair®) and sildenafil (Revatio®).
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Frailty is not a diagnosis that typically comes to mind when clinicians examine HIV patients, but with increasing numbers of older people being diagnosed or younger patients growing old with the disease, it should be on HIV clinicians' radar.
