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The budget impasse plaguing Washington may actually save the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) from some deep cuts.
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The message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on testing for hepatitis C is unequivocal. In the words of director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH: Baby boomers may not remember everything we did in the 60s or 70s, but our liver does.
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When two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, hospital clinicians had one thought: I have to get to work. A surgeon who had just run 26 miles came into Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and prepared to operate. Nurses and doctors treating the wounded wondered about their own family and friends.
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Health care workers are more stressed-out than workers from any other industry. They have high rates of depression. And while their challenges may seem to be personal ones, health care employers are beginning to recognize that mental health is a workplace concern, too.
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Even as transmission of H7N9 avian influenza subsided in China this spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remains at heightened concern over the potential for a new pandemic
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Pertussis immunity wanes even one year after immunization with Tdap, so routine re-immunization of adults is not cost-effective, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded.
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Egg allergy should no longer prevent someone from receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine. A recombinant flu vaccine (Flublok by Protein Sciences Corp.) that is not produced with eggs will be available this fall for people between the ages of 18 and 49.
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Health care workers in Boston are the first patients to test a new model of ambulatory care.
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Just what is the risk of transmission from a coughing patient with influenza? Researchers still can't answer that question definitively, but airborne particles appear to play a greater role than previously believed.
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New patient handling standards from the American Nurses Association provide the first comprehensive guidelines that apply to all health care facilities.
