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Flu truth for health care: Lead or be lambasted
The authors of a recently published provocative paper advocating mandatory influenza vaccinations for health care workers underscored seven primary truths to support the controversial recommendation. -
First do no harm? Health care workers imperil patients by snubbing flu shots
In cold fact, some unknown number of hospital patients and nursing home residents die of influenza year in, year out because they were treated by health care workers who declined flu vaccination. -
Full November 2005 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Watch
Roche is Under Pressure Over Its Antiviral Drug Tamiflu; ACE Inhibitors or ARBs for Prediabetics?; Xigris is Approved for Severe Sepsis; ACE Inhibitors Inhibiting Aortic Valve Stenosis?; FDA Actions -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Updates by Carol A Kemper
Following an educational campaign promoting hand washing in public places, and observing 6300 people using public restrooms at various locations across the United States, researchers report slow but steady improvement in rates of hand washing. But men are still not as rigorous as women about their personnel hygiene. -
Valproic Acid for HIV Infection
This proof of concept clinical trial intensively studied 4 patients with HIV infection who had plasma levels of HIV RNA below the lower limit of quantification in a standard viral load assay on standard HAART therapy. -
The Effect of Antibiotic Therapy for Intraabdominal Infections on Selection of Antibiotic-Resistant Bowel Flora
Several randomized, comparative trials have demonstrated the efficacy of ertapenem in the treatment of patients with intraabdominal infections. -
Full November 2005 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement