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The present study involves yet another analysis of the Nurses Health Study, which began in 1976 when 121,700 female registered nurses 30-55 years of age returned a questionnaire about their medical history and health-related behaviors.
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The loss of roughly half the nations flu vaccine supply for the 2004-2005 season has infection control professionals scrambling to revamp their programs and secure adequate doses for health care workers and high-risk patients.
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The latest evidence of the continuing emergence of a single predominant strain of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) comes from Atlanta, where hospital-based investigators found the so-called USA 300 clone is causing 90% of incoming skin and soft tissue infections.
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In response to the national influenza vaccine shortage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing the answers to some of the most common questions by clinicians and the public.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are working together in completely aligning current and future common hospital quality measures in their condition-specific performance measure sets.
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In many countries around the world, antibiotics are sold without a prescription, a practice that is illegal in the United States. Yet some New York City stores that primarily serve the Hispanic community are selling these drugs over the counter, which adds to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, according to a study presented recently in Boston at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
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