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.
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.
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.
It is another busy night in the emergency department (ED), but you are managing to keep up with the tempo. However, the next chart in the rack is bound to slow your pace: It is an 83-year-old man with the chief complaint of "not feeling well."
The death of a nurse from the novel H1N1 and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) should have been more thoroughly investigated for a work-related link, according to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA).
Keeping track of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) would be a new priority under a proposed record-keeping rule, evidence of a new direction for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
