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In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 26% of HIV/AIDS diagnoses among adolescents and adults were among females.1 What will it take to expand the number of available options for female-controlled prevention of infection?
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The 2009 update of HIV primary care guidelines make several new recommendations, and the evidence basis for these is documented in the paper. The following changes are present in the 2009 guidelines:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed, on Sept. 18, 2009, the Abbott Prism HIV O Plus assay, a new screening tool designed to detect the presence of antibodies to the two types of the virus that causes AIDS, HIV 1 and HIV 2.
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When news erupted in late September that a combination of two previously-failed HIV vaccines the Sanofi Pasteur's Alvac and Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases' AIDSVAX was successful with 31.2% of people vaccinated in a phase III Thailand clinical trial, a great deal changed for the HIV vaccine research world.
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HIV clinicians and investigators now have a unique opportunity to learn more about the disease as the last large group of U.S. babies infected with HIV at birth are approaching adulthood with prospects of living decades longer.
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AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) in more than a dozen states were starting waiting lists or expected to restrict antiretroviral drug access soon, according to an ADAP update in early October, 2009.
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With the prospect of an H1N1 pandemic, "many stakeholders perceive that EMTALA [the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act] imposes significant restrictions on hospitals' ability to provide adequate care when EDs experience extraordinary surges in demand," according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Recognizing that fact, CMS has issued a fact sheet to allay those fears.
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Getting chest pain patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) within an average of 83 minutes is no small accomplishment.
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The electrocardiogram (ECG) and X-ray of a chest pain patient in his mid-50s were both normal when examined by the treating ED physician. However, the physician's shift ended before the patient's lab results were back. Based on the test results that were back, the oncoming ED physician discharged the patient as "chest pain, non-cardiac." Several hours later, the lab results came back with critical values.
