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Hospitals will have considerable leeway to make their own decisions about who and how many health care workers will be immunized for smallpox if the government moves ahead as expected and offers the vaccine to medical personnel.
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has collected the following data on the current state of the nursing shortage and actions different organizations are taking to address it.
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New committee to advise on protection of human embryos; Tenet hires auditor to examine fraud charges; Pfizer to pay millions for fraud case settlement.
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The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria is in big trouble, and will be bankrupt if more money doesnt come in by the time the next round of grant applications are due three months from now, says the executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance.
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Medication monitors traditionally have garnered little respect in the TB world. As technical advances in the prototypes continue to pile up, it seems likely that sooner or later, a compliance monitor will hit the market thats too user-friendly and inexpensive to ignore.
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When the task is to awaken a sleeping princess, traditionally the job goes to a prince. When the task is jump-starting the engines of a stalled advocacy group, John Seggerson (the recently retired associate director for external relations at the CDCs Division of TB Elimination) seems like an obvious choice.
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Negotiations between Russia and the World Bank over a $150 million loan to fight TB and HIV/AIDS are back on track, and the loan is expected to go through sometime next spring, according to bank officials.
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The Stakeholders Association of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development has elected as its new president Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH, director of the National TB Center at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark.
