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In this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial from the Netherlands, 6,771 patients were screened on admission to the hospital for the presence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization using real-time PCR. Of those, 1,251 patients were positive for S. aureus and 917 were included in the intent-to-treat analysis.
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In October 2009, the US FDA approved Cervarix, a bivalent vaccine containing the oncogenic HPV types 16 and 18, for the prevention of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions in females ages 10 years through 25 years.
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Malaria is one of the most important diagnostic considerations in febrile returned travelers and can be fatal if not appropriately diagnosed and treated.
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Click here for the February 2010 Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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A longitudinal study of hospitalized WNV patients in Houston was initiated in 2002. A total of 112 patients remain in the cohort.
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Nearly half of the world's population live in malaria-endemic geographic regions, and more than one million African children die of malaria each year. Vaccine development continues.
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Eleven heroin users in Northern England and Scotland, as well as a possible twelfth, have been diagnosed with anthrax infection; five have died.
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n this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.
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It's nothing new. Compliance with verbal orders has been a struggle for hospitals for more than 25 years. Many experts Hospital Peer Review spoke with compare verbal-order compliance to hand-washing compliance. It's behavioral. It's something we know we have to do. And it's not a matter of ill-intentioned practitioners. It's a matter of time and logistics.
