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A team from UCSF recently reviewed company documents that were entered into the public record as a result of litigation over the promotion of gabapentin (Neurontin) between 1994 and 1998.
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Hyperthyroidism is one of the most readily recognized entities in clinical medicine. It is a disorder with easily recognized symptoms and signs that make the diagnosis obvious.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is embroiled in a legal battle with the American Nurses Association (ANA) over the issue of hospital staffing levels.
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The federal government's pandemic influenza plan lacks urgency in the area of vaccine development, which must be the linchpin to any public health response, two leading infectious disease groups warn.
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Synopsis: Active, prospective laboratory-based surveillance of community-onset staphylococcal skin and soft-tissue infections at an Atlanta hospital found that 72% were caused by MRSA.
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The world is on pandemic watch, with the prevailing public health fear that a currently circulating avian influenza A (H5N1) will mutate with a human strain of influenza and become transmissible from person to person.
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Arguing that the vast majority of hospital infections are preventable, the former lieutenant governor of New York is warning that nosocomial infections could be the "next asbestos" in terms of legal liability.
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Joint Commission Resources (JCR) a division of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has collaborated with a leading national infection control group to publish a workbook.