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In a cross-sectional analysis of 300 postmenopausal breast cancer patients treated with aromatase inhibitors, the occurrence of treatment-related arthralgia (by self-report) was approximately 50%. The symptoms were more frequent in women who were closer to the menopause transition and generally occurred within three months after treatment initiation.
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Guidelines have suggested patients on warfarin have an international normalized ratio (INR) recall interval not exceeding four weeks.
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In a prospective analysis of weight-reduction surgery, the long-term cumulative risk of both non-fatal and fatal cancer was significantly reduced in women, but not in men.
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Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings.
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In an case that sets an ominous tone for the resurging pandemic, a healthy 51-year-old oncology nurse who worked in Carmichael, CA, recently died of a coinfection with H1N1 influenza A and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (MRSA).
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A New York mandate that health care workers receive seasonal flu shots may drive nurses from the profession even as that state faces a nursing shortage, said Eileen Avery, MS, RN, associate director of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA).
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Enforcement of a controversial regulation mandating flu shots for New York health care workers appears to fall primarily to hospitals and other health care facilities.
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Can strong hospital leadership supporting flu immunization be as successful and less divisive as mandating the seasonal shots?
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The Joint Commission's 2009 patient safety goal regarding multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) includes the following key provisions and deadlines:
