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Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina attorney who represented businesses in their dealings with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), received U.S. Senate confirmation as the new OSHA administrator.
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Washington has become the first state in the nation to require hospitals to use patient transfer equipment "instead of manual lifting"; as part of a safe patient handling program. The law, which easily passed the state House and Senate, with support from unions and the hospital association, is a landmark for the safe patient handling movement.
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Ethnic and Racial Differences in the Smoking-Related Risk of Lung Cancer; Neuropathy Among the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Cohort; Saw Palmetto for BPH; Quality of Reporting of Noninferiority and Equivalence Randomized Trials; Thyroid Status, Cardiovascular Risk, and Mortality; Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate, and the Two in Combination for Osteoarthritis;
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Today, advanced treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has pushed back the development of AIDS in many HIV-positive patients. Consequently, more people are living longer with HIV infection, increasing the likelihood that patients will present to the emergency department (ED) at some time during the course of their illness.
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Optimal surgical cytoreduction is a recognized staple of initial advanced ovarian cancer care. However, within the spectrum of patients who undergo this surgery are those in whom complete resection is either impossible or unwarranted in the face of certain unacceptable morbidity.
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Jick and colleagues, epidemiologists at Boston University School of Medicine, performed a case-control study of nonfatal venous thrombosis using information derived from a very large database that records prescriptions and diagnoses longitudinally in managed health care plans.
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The association between exogenous estrogen use and endometrial cancer development has been well documented. Nonetheless, the hazard of estrogen replacement therapy in women with a personal history of endometrial cancer has not been well studied and, despite anecdotal evidence of its safety, is largely discouraged among clinicians.
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Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Refractory Asthma and TNFConnection?; FDA Actions
