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IPs Target HAI Reduction Goals for 2020
Although considerable progress has been made in reducing targeted healthcare-associated infections, the Department of Health and Human Services has set a new baseline and established ambitious new goals for 2020.
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A Bold New Day for Infection Prevention in LTC
The CMS has finalized its new infection control regulations for long-term care, revising a few areas in response to comments while implementing landmark changes to protect increasingly vulnerable resident populations.
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CDC Q&A for Hospitals Notifying Patients About Heater-Cooler Device
The CDC recently issued the following answers to common questions about notifying cardiac surgical patients potentially exposed to contaminated heater-cooler devices.
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CDC Calls for Massive Patient Notification on Heater-Coolers
The CDC is alerting hospitals that hundreds of thousands of open-heart surgery patients may be at risk of slow-growing infections caused by heater-cooler devices that were intrinsically contaminated during production.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: treating refractory chronic pruritus, accelerating weight loss with technology, and lowering uric acid in gout patients.
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Eteplirsen Injection (Exondys 51)
Eteplirsen is indicated for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients who present with confirmed mutation of the DMD gene that is amenable to exon 51 skipping.
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Warning: Reactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection During Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Prior to initiation of hepatitis C virus treatment with direct-acting antivirals, patients should be screened for hepatitis B virus coinfection.
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Changing Gut Microbiota to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
The long-term consumption of a healthy diet, such as the Mediterranean diet or low-fat/high complex carbohydrate diets, may exert a protective effect on the development of type 2 diabetes by changing the gut microbiota.
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Statins Associated with Lower Parkinson’s Risk in Diabetics
In approximately 50,000 individuals with Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, identified from a National Health Insurance database in Taiwan, statin use was dose-dependently associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.
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Why Do the Beats Keep Changing?
What clinical situation commonly is associated with arrhythmias such as the one shown in this figure?