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The nation's first senior emergency center, opened by Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD, is specifically tailored to meet the needs of a growing population of adults and provides care that goes beyond the typical emergency department assessment and treatment.
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Recognizing that ED wait times and throughput are affected by the entire hospital, the leaders at King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, KY, engaged all the departments that interface with the ED and slashed the rate at which ED patients leave before treatment from 5% to 0.5%.
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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has become a growing problem in HIV/AIDS patients, clinicians and researchers report.
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The final version of the federal HIV/AIDS program budget for fiscal year 2010 is about as close to what AIDS advocates have wanted as they've seen in nearly a decade.
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In the United States, women and teen girls accounted for more than one-fourth of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2007 and more than 93,900 cumulative deaths from AIDS. Black women are at heightened risk. The incidence rate of new diagnoses in black women is almost 15 times higher than that of white women, according to statistics compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The good news is that HIV advocacy groups, clinicians, and others haven't seen so many HIV/AIDS program federal budget increases since the 1990s. The bad news is that it might be too little, too late in a recessionary environment in which state budgets are forcing draconian cuts.
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An open-label, randomized, controlled trial of early vs. delayed initiation of HAART was conducted in 642 patients with active TB and HIV infection in Durban, South Africa.
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On April 27, 2010, FDA approved a new dosing regimen for lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra®) tablets and oral solution.
