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Rewind to 2007. A large HIV vaccine clinical trial sponsored by Merck & Co. is shuttered after an interim analysis concluded that the vaccine did not prevent infection. Fast forward to today.
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The Population Council, a New York City-based reproductive health research organization, and Sheldon Segal, PhD, distinguished scientist at the council, have been scheduled to receive the 2008 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award for their role in developing implantable hormone delivery systems.
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As you move through your busy day at the clinic, how are you providing important sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention messages to your patients? If caseload and budgetary restrictions are impeding your intentions, take a look at using a brief waiting room video intervention to complement your efforts.
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What is your clinic's policy when it comes to getting a signed informed consent for HIV testing? By eliminating required written consent for HIV testing at the San Francisco Department of Public Health Medical Center, the average monthly rate of HIV tests has increased by 4.38 per 1,000 patient-visits, with a 67% increase (from 8.9 to 14.9) in the monthly average number of new positive HIV tests.
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Talk with your patients about fraudulent drugs sold over the Internet as treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warning letters to six U.S. companies and one foreign individual for marketing unapproved and misbranded drugs over the Internet to U.S. consumers for STD prevention and treatment.
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Lifestyle changes plus red yeast rice and fish oil resulted in similar beneficial effects on LDL cholesterol as moderate-dose statin therapy in patients meeting criteria for drug therapy for high LDL cholesterol.
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Strategies to determine treatment of acute coronary syndromes need to take gender into account.
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There are no disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for COPD. That is, although bronchodilators, anticholinergic agents, and inhaled corticosteroids improve FEV1 and reduce symptoms, decline in pulmonary function continues unabated and lung function returns promptly to pretreatment status once medication is stopped.
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Using blood pressure, BUN, serum sodium, and presence of peripheral arterial disease as predictors of mortality in heart failure patients, 67% who had 3 or more factors died within 6 months and would qualify for the Medicare hospice benefit.