For the first time, newly proposed guidance puts a number and a cost to the respirators needed to protect health care workers during an influenza pandemic: 480 respirators at a cost of about $240 to protect a single employee, or a single reusable elastomeric respirator with three filters at a cost of $40 per employee.
If you could give health care workers the ideal respirator, what would it look like? For the first time, an interagency task force is considering that question in a project they hope will result in a more effective, less cumbersome respirator perhaps one that doesn't require fit-testing.
It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees.
Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting comments on its proposed guidance on antiviral prophylaxis during an influenza pandemic.
"At what price is cure a goal? And what price does hope carry?" Lindsay E. Rockwell, MD, a Northampton, MA oncologist, wrote in a 2007 JAMA article.
Genetics research tells us that every person has as many as six or even more genetic mutations placing him or her at risk for some disease.
A physician working in a clinic that sees a high percentage of minority patients who live in public housing reports a difficult time obtaining reports from other providers; his peers in more affluent parts of town who see fewer minority patients report no such delays.
