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Every year, pharmacists at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor prepare a million doses of medicines for thousands of young and often very ill patients.
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If you enjoyed your triennial survey, here's a chance to do it all over again the next week.
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News: A man diagnosed with bipolar disorder became extremely depressed. Believing that he required full-time professional care, his family physician arranged for admittance to a psychiatric hospital.
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News: After undergoing brow-lift plastic surgery, a young woman blamed her subsequent delirium on the adverse effects of the post-surgery drugs she was prescribed.
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... only covered entities and those people rendered accountable by general principles of corporate criminal liability may be prosecuted under criminal enforcement provisions of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification section.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) says it is "troubled" by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan to publicize the identity of those covered entities given civil monetary penalties under enforcement of HIPAA's administrative simplification section.
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Do you remember Enovid, the first oral contraceptive (OC)? Introduced in 1960 by GD Searle in Skokie, IL, the pill was formulated for 21 days of active hormones, followed by seven hormone-free days. During the pill-free interval, the superficial portion of the endometrium was sloughed, producing a withdrawal bleeding episode that simulated menstruation.
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Current package labeling for the contraceptive injection depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) (Depo-Provera, Pfizer, New York City) calls for the method to be initiated within the first five days of a womans menstrual period.
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The next patient at your STD (sexually transmitted diseases) clinic is a young man with a mucoid/purulent anal discharge and a lymph node enlargement in the groin area.
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While no microbicide has yet moved from the research pipeline to the pharmacy shelf, progress is going forward on several fronts to develop female-controlled physical and chemical barrier methods to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
