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The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has made an electronic Application for Survey (application.aaahc.org) available to organizations seeking surveys.
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The overall public health picture looks good with tuberculosis (TB) rates continuing to decline in both HIV-infected and general United States populations. But these facts mask a disturbing trend that researchers found in Southern California.
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HIV/AIDS providers and others say the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), which was signed by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, contains mostly good news for the HIV/AIDS community.
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For HIV providers who continually see a certain cohort of patients return to the hospital and fail on their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens, there's a new model for medication support that might prove helpful.
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Do some health care workers infected with HIV or hepatitis B or C pose a risk to their patients? Should they be restricted from performing exposure-prone procedures?
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New guidelines for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) for health care workers infected with bloodborne viruses include the following procedures at greatest risk of transmission to patients.
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Due to their impaired immune function, HIV-positive women have a much higher risk of developing cervical and uterine cancers than do women without the disease.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a public meeting of its Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee to discuss the safety and efficacy of new drug application (NDA) 22505, tesamorelin acetate (EGRIFTA®) sterile lyophilized powder for injection, by Theratechnologies, Inc.
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