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A new opioid analgesic with a dual mechanism of action has been released for market by PriCara, a division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is inextricably linked with adverse cardiovascular events including stroke, MI, hypertension (HTN), and arrhythmia.
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Comparing blood pressure medications, determining optimal length of androgen-deprivation therapy, red yeast rice for LDL reduction, and FDA Actions.
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This issue is the second installment in a two-part series on breast cancer. The first part covered epidemiology, histologic types of breast cancer, screening, diagnosis, principles of treatment, and surgical management. This issue will cover chemotherapy, radiation therapy, endocrine therapy, metastatic breast cancer, and primary care for the breast cancer survivor.
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With the move to "targeting zero" infections and abandoning benchmark ranges comes a new role for the infection preventionists: agent of change.
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Ah, the good old days when infections were classified as "nosocomial" (hospital-acquired) or not. There wasn't anything else but "we didn't do this thing" or "yes, this is our infection because we gave this to this person at our hospital."
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State laws passed in the name of patient safety may straddle infection prevention programs with mandates that ultimately are counterproductive, an infection preventionist warned recently in Fort Lauderdale, FL, at the annual conference of the Association for Prevention of Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).