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When ED waiting rooms are overcrowded, patients with severe pain are more likely to get poor quality care, according to a recent study.
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While the federal government has been much criticized for bioterrorism and disaster planning or lack thereof experts and scholars are lauding the concise yet ambitious plan recently released as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21).
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Seven years after the anthrax attacks jolted the nation and set off a wave of biodefense initiatives, the United States has a "highly disturbing" lack of readiness for attacks with biological agents, a leading bioterrorism expert recently told Congress.
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Scholars at the Institute for Biosecurity at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health are circulating a consensus statement calling for anthrax vaccine to be offered to civilian emergency responders and critical infrastructure workers.
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In a retrospective review of a primarily community-based registry of prostate cancer patients, a heightened risk of cardiovascular mortality was found for patients with localized disease treated with either adjuvant or neoadjuvant androgen deprivation.
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Advances such as nonmyeloablative conditioning have contributed to increased utilization of allogeneic transplant in older and less fit individuals.
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Night shift work has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of breast, colon and prostate cancer, presumably on the basis of diminished melatonin and its effects on hormonal and metabolic factors.
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Updated Immunization Guidelines from the CDC; Do antivirals have a role in the treatment of Bell's palsy? Topiramate is a promising treatment for alcohol dependence; and FDA Actions.
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