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In tandem with the movement toward electronic medical records, electronic prescribing has gained momentum, most notably with the mandate found in the Medicare Modernization Act to adopt standards by 2008.
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Five years after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that followed, stakeholders in public health, medicine, and private industry are forging a partnership that anticipates the next generation of deadly challenges to the nation's biodefense.
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In an unusual personal aside at a strategic planning meeting, Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recalled a harrowing night when it appeared for a few hours that a bioterrorism attack was underway at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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A draft federal plan for development and acquisition of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) threats includes the following overarching principles:
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N95 respirators are rarely used as an infection control barrier during seasonal influenza outbreaks, but the emergence of a global pandemic flu strain would change that thinking rapidly.
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While a matter of much concern and discussion in the United States, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) also is arising in some rather bizarre manifestations in Europe.
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Kansas City, KS. During May 1-Dec. 31, 2005, a total of 201 confirmed Shigella sonnei infections were reported among residents of Kansas City, KS. Median age of patients was 7 years (range: 1-70 years).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the following answers to some frequently asked questions about its new guidelines of HIV testing:
