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Investigators compared United States surveillance data for cancer in the pre-HIV era, HIV era, and antiretroviral treatment era and found that squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal incidence rates increased significantly in the latter era.
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The Food and Drug Administration will be conducting a public workshop entitled Behavior-Based Blood Donor Deferrals in the Era of Nucleic Acid Testing [NAT).
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Despite national media headlines announcing the end of treatment interruption as an antiretroviral strategy, the most recent studies show mixed results, and so the research probably will continue.
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The CDC reported 4 cases of fatal Toxic Shock Syndrome in California associated with Clostridium sordellii that occurred within one week after medical abortions (induced with 200 mg of oral mifepristone and 800 µg of vaginal misoprostol).
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The next woman in your examination room has been using oral contraceptives (OCs) as her chosen method of birth control for the past three months. During her checkup, she tells you that she often misses a pill in her pack, but doesnt take further precautions for protection.
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Long-Term Effects of Warfarin Use; Statins Multiple Benefits; FDA Actions
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Samples obtained by swabbing both nares of almost 10,000 individuals > 1 year of age in the US National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) in 2001-2002 were cultured on mannitol salt agar. S. aureus was identified in 32.4% of subjects and 0.8% were colonized with methicillin resistant S. aureus(MRSA).
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Adverse drug events (ADES) are unwanted consequences of drug therapy and have important implications for each patient, the treating physician, and the institution itself. When assessing adverse effects, prescribing healthcare workers should pay particular attention to ADEs that interrupt the patients therapeutic regimen and hence increase the patients length of stay in the hospital.
