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In a matched, retrospective cohort study, early use of daptomycin compared to vancomycin in MRSA bacteremia with vancomycin MICs > 1 ìg/mL resulted in improved clinical outcomes, including less clinical failure at 30 days, lower mortality and less persistent bacteremia.
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NSAIDs and cardiovascular risk; new antithrombotic guidelines; warfarin during surgery; Pfizer selling Viagra online; azithromycin and cardiovascular risk; and FDA actions.
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The risk of cardiovascular mortality with current use of the azalide (but not with past or future use) was increased (rate ratio, 2.85; 95% CI 1.13 to 7.24).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for chronically HBV-infected health-care providers and students include the following key measures:
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Some foreign-born medical and dental students with chronic hepatitis B virus are being subjected to Draconian policies or rejected from schools and institutions, though in most cases they can be managed with very little threat to patient safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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The toughest flu vaccine mandate in the country faces a legal challenge from the nations largest union representing health care workers.
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A recently reported case of hepatitis B virus transmission from a chronically infected surgeon to as many as eight patients underscores the need for providers to know their HBV status and seek the counsel of an expert review panel if they perform invasive or so called exposure-prone procedures, public health officials emphasize.
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It seems an understatement to say healthcare and the public at large, has had a few unknown infection scares in recent years.
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