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Though a growing sense of public apathy threatens to reduce H1N1 influenza A to the Rodney Dangerfield of pandemics, those who have experienced or witnessed a severe case of infection will not soon forget this erstwhile "swine flu."
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Infection preventionists recently received some legal advice, and it wasn't quite as bleak as the old admonition to put everything you own under your spouse's name.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's compliance directive to protect health care workers from H1N1 pandemic influenza A includes a series of questions inspectors may ask when on a health care site visit. Know the answers to these and you're OSHA ready in terms of H1N1:
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You might receive a citation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) if you fail to assess respiratory hazards related to H1N1 pandemic influenza A, don't use various methods to reduce employee exposure or fail to consider respirators other than N95s when there is a shortage.
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The American College of Surgeons (ACS) most recent recommendations on infection prevention and safety in the operating room are summarized as follows:
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early December 2009 its final decision to cover Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection screening for Medicare beneficiaries who are at increased risk for the infection.
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As Medical Ethics Advisor reported in December, one of the sessions held at the annual conference in Washington, DC, of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities in October was on the top developments in bioethics in 2009.
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Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life rights group, says that it is "alarmed" by a newly revised Ethical and Religious Directive approved in November by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Monir Moniruzzaman has seen the kind of poverty that would drive a desperate individual to sell his or her organ.