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Since plague (Yersinia pestis) was introduced into the United States in the San Francisco Bay area in 1900, there have been a total of 941 confirmed human cases recorded through the year 2000.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporarily should suspend its smallpox vaccination programs and conduct an evaluation and reassessment of the effort before vaccine is offered to larger groups of health care workers, a special panel of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, recommends.
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The Institute Medicine advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pause its smallpox immunization efforts
to permit time for the following developments.
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More than 100 pregnant women have been exposed inadvertently to smallpox vaccine since immunization programs began in U.S. hospitals, the military, and clinical trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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The breakdown of pregnant women inadvertently vaccinated in smallpox immunization programs is as follows.
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Although spinal injuries occur infrequently, a delay in the detection of thoracolumbar trauma may have devastating consequences for a child. It is critical that the emergency physican be familiar with injury patterns that may result in this type of injury.
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The American Society of Health-System Pharma-cists (ASHP) in Bethesda, MD, released in May a draft of the goals and objectives for pharmacy practice in health systems to be achieved by 2015.
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Off-label use of a drug is common in health care, but pharmacists agree that they must minimize the risk by relying on their clinical judgment and the standard of care.
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Zoledronic acid (Zometa) drug evaluation
