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Hospitals that have higher staff levels and better working conditions for nurses are safer for elderly intensive care unit patients, according to a recent report, led by Columbia University School of Nursing researchers that measured rates of hospital-associated infections.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the operating room.
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A hospital that restricted the use of alcohol-based skin preps (ABSPs) in operating rooms due to concerns about surgical fires saw infection rates flame up in very short order.
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Hospitals may become more liable to infection-related lawsuits as patients gain greater access to information and expect higher standards of care to prevent infections once considered inevitable, a legal scholar warns.
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Cases of coccidioidomycosis in the desert states have increased substantially in the past few years, but Arizona has been the hardest hit, with a record number of 5493 cases in 2006.
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Why do people die with influenza? three new articles seemingly disparate relate to this age-old question.
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A typical mycobacteria are the most common cause of chronic cervicofacial lymphadenitis in children.
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The immune response to HIV exerts a selective pressure, just as do antiretroviral drugs. Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) that recognize HLA class I-restricted viral epitopes expressed on the surface of infected cells exert a pressure on these epitopes.
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