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In this issue: FDA issues multiple drug safety alerts; ARBs and cancer risk; and FDA actions.
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The National Medication Error Reporting Program (operated by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices [ISMP]) recently issued an alert on the potential risk of medication errors associated with dosing colistimethate for injection.
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The American Medical Association convened the biannual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago in June with more than 500 delegates from a variety of societies and organizations.
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The increasing sophistication of molecular tools is allowing for the discovery of all kinds of novel strains of bacteria; witness the multiple new strains of Rickettsia discovered around the world.
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CDI can be a difficult-to-manage complication of antibiotic therapy. Although it is preferable to discontinue the inciting antibiotic when CDI occurs, this is not always possible given that many patients have serious infections, which require ongoing antibiotic therapy.
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Two human cystic fibrosis (CF) bronchial epithelial cell lines and one CF human primary epithelial cell line in culture were treated with AZM at 10 µg/mL.
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A retrospective review of pediatric malaria at a Washington, DC, children's hospital identified 98 cases over 8 years (1999-2006). Their mean age was 9.6 years.
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Oude Lashof and colleagues examined the incidence and outcomes of patients with ocular involvement in a randomized, clinical trial comparing treatment of non-neutropenic patients with candidemia with either voriconazole or amphotericin B followed by fluconazole.
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A 58-year-old Liberian-born woman was in excellent general health, living and working in a large academic medical center in Rhode Island for more than 20 years, when she developed nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms and underwent endoscopy, which revealed Strongyloides stercoralis larvae on a duodenal biopsy in March 2010.
