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While much attention has been focused on adverse reactions following smallpox vaccination, the story of hospitals that have successfully completed the program has been somewhat overshadowed.
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Draft patient isolation guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include two tiers of infection control measures to thwart the rise of multidrug-resistant organisms.
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Infection control professionals will have the opportunity to review and comment on controversial new patient isolation guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later this year, a CDC advisor reports.
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Since 1970, more than 375 patients worldwide have been infected with hepatitis B virus by their surgeons, according to a recent review article.
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Concerned that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may resurge as a seasonal infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rapidly developing strategies and tools to help clinicians make the differential diagnosis between the emerging disease and annual influenza, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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Inevitably, some investigators will not be compliant with the federal or state statutes and regulations, institutional rules, or IRB policies when conducting clinical research.
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Except on the television drama ER, it rarely occurs, even at medical universities and affiliated hospitals, but occasionally an IRB may encounter a case where an investigator desires to have informed consent waived in order to conduct emergency medical research.
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The Partnership for Human Research Protection (PHRP) in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, recently announced the approval of final standards for a new accreditation program to safeguard the interests of human subjects participating in research efforts.
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For years, inmates of a Philadelphia city jail, known as Holmesburg Prison, participated in medical experiments. From the mid-1950s to 1974, when medical testing was banned, research, ranging from dermatological treatments to the effects of mind-altering drugs, was conducted at the jail.
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Monitoring student research isnt always a top priority for an IRB, and often the job may be partly handled by the students department and graduate advisor. However, in the cases where the student research involves human subjects who are children, the issue becomes far more complicated.