-
A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial conducted by the International Neonatal Immunotherapy Study (INIS) compared adjunctive therapy of human nonspecific polyvalent IgG intravenous immune globulin to placebo in the treatment of newborn infants with suspected or proven sepsis who were also receiving antibiotic therapy.
-
While a number of antiretroviral agents have been implicated in contributing to both insulin resistance and lipid abnormalities, HIV also directly causes metabolic disturbances.
-
-
In this issue: Medication poisonings in children; rosuvastatin vs atorvastatin for atherosclerosis; saw palmetto for prostate symptoms; using atypical antipsychotics for off-label indications in adults; and FDA actions.
-
A 1-month prevalence study was done in 2009 at 25 of the 56 contributing hospitals participating in the Chicago Health Alert Network.
-
In early October, 12 inmates from the Utah State Correctional Facility became acutely ill with nausea, vomiting, facial paralysis, and visual blurring.
-
Hollywood movies have always created their own reality. Meanwhile, the rest of us slog through the conventional reality of our daily lives.
-
This study was conducted at the largest children's hospital in Taiwan. All pneumococcal isolates recovered from sterile sites from children hospitalized at this institution were maintained frozen at -20° C since 2000.
-
A proposed National Quality Forum measure may standardize the way hospitals calculate their health care worker influenza immunization rates.
-
While IPs would no doubt like to see even higher numbers, one effect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2008 reimbursement cuts is that more hospital senior administration and clinical leaders are preaching the gospel of infection prevention.