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When a 57-year-old man walked into the emergency department (ED) at North Broward Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL, with slurred speech and left facial drooping, his wife told nurses that the symptoms had started about 30 minutes earlier. We immediately assumed the worst case scenario: that it was a stroke, says Sharon S. Cohen, RN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, trauma clinical nurse specialist.
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Final security standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for protecting patient health information when it is maintained or transmitted electronically have been adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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It has been suggested that we may be entering into a post-antibiotic era. Disaster has so far been averted by the continuing development of new antimicrobial agents. It is now, however, clear that this flow of new agents, especially ones directed at resistant Gram-negative pathogens, has slowed to a trickle.
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Random skin biopsies may be helpful in establishing an etiology of fever of unknown origin.
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There may be a cancer risk associated with exposure of airline crews to cosmic radiation.
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An outbreak of human Ebola virus infection in Congo was preceded by a die-off of great apes, with the virus having been recovered from some ape carcasses.
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Synopsis: Either a sensitive test for HCV RNA or a recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) may be used to confirm the presence of HCV infection in an individual with a positive screening test.
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The discontinuation of manufacture of cefixime has implications for the treatment of gonorrhea and for the future of antibiotic therapy in general.