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FDA Approves Generic Version of AstraZenecas Prilosec; Pegasys
Approved To Treat Hepatitis C; HRT Reduces Alzheimers Risk, Study
Says; Heparin Plus Alteplase More Effective; Digoxin Effects Differ By
Sex; McClellan Named FDA Commissioner; FDA Actions
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An excellent update on rabies was provided by Charles E. Rupprecht, the Rabies Section Chief of the CDC, during the Symposium, Control of Zoonoses: A Veterinary Perspective at the recent 51st annual ASTMH meeting in Denver, Colo.
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New data and consensus discussions provide updated guidance about the use of hepatitis A vaccine for young children, in US residents, and in individuals who are traveling very soon after their pretravel consultations.
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When Katie Westbrook was 14 years old, she and her mother, Beth Westbrook, made a monumental decision together. Katie, who had been battling osteosarcoma since she was 12, had already endured several rounds of chemotherapy, surgery to remove a tumor in her lower back, a leg amputation, and an inoperable tumor in her neck. She decided she was ready for hospice.
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Health care providers are understandably concerned about the legal climate in which they live, observes Marshall B. Kapp, JD, MPH, professor in the department of community health at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, OH.
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A state-by-state report card on hospice services shows most states are doing a poor job of caring for the dying. According to the report, patients are spending less time in hospice care than they did in the early 1980s when the movement first started in the United States.
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Even states that ranked high in hospice use earned low grades overall on a national report card prepared by the Last Acts organization in Washington, DC.
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Most hospices that provide pediatric palliative care must do so without reimbursement. But there are trends that suggest the days of care wholly subsidized by community support may be on its way out.
