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On3 Lateral Transfer Device; TotaLift II Transfer Chair;TotaLift PTS; AirMatt Lateral Transfer System; and more.
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If youre looking for information on how your bloodborne pathogen exposures compare to other facilities, a new book offers a compilation of information.
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New highly accurate rapid HIV tests are reshaping the way hospitals are handling bloodborne pathogen exposures.
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Shortage of influenza vaccine may continue into the 2005-2006 influenza season. As of late February, it was unclear whether Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, CA, would be able to resolve manufacturing problems in time to produce influenza vaccine by next fall. Chiron was one of the two major suppliers of flu vaccine in the United States.
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This years flu vaccine shortage failed to budge the nations health care workers from their typically dismal rate of vaccination. About 43% of health care workers with direct patient care responsibilities received the vaccine, which is similar to that of prior years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.
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Epidemiology; Laboratory Diagnosis/Testing; Clinical Findings; Treatment/Prophylaxis; Prevention
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Another vaccine is on the horizon for health care workers this time to protect them and their patients from a troubling resurgence of pertussis, the whooping cough illness that is particularly dangerous for young infants.
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Mistrust of the medical and science communities may be discouraging non-Caucasian cancer patients from enrolling in clinical trials, a research group has discovered.
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Recent challenges to the medical licenses of physicians who participate in state-ordered executions have been dismissed, but the physicians and ethicists who claim that participation violates the American Medical Association (AMA) code of ethics vow to keep up the complaints.
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There are some ethical issues that are universal end of life decisions, competency, and refusal of treatment, to name a few. But the questions involved and their answers seem to carry added weight when the patients are children.