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While much attention has been focused on adverse reactions following smallpox vaccination, the story of hospitals that have successfully completed the program has been somewhat overshadowed.
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Citing concerns about patient safety and the arrogance of his professional colleagues, a retired surgeon is urging that those practicing surgery should undergo mandatory testing for bloodborne infections.
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After years of fierce protest by infection control professionals, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has officially withdrawn its proposed health care tuberculosis standard.
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For many years, institutions involved in training the nations bioscience researchers have spent a great deal of time and money ensuring that their graduates function at the cutting edge of science and technology.
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Making changes under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has not been easy for many research institutions and their IRBs.
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Monitoring student research isnt always a top priority for an IRB, and often the job may be partly handled by the students department and graduate advisor. However, in the cases where the student research involves human subjects who are children, the issue becomes far more complicated.
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For years, inmates of a Philadelphia city jail, known as Holmesburg Prison, participated in medical experiments. From the mid-1950s to 1974, when medical testing was banned, research, ranging from dermatological treatments to the effects of mind-altering drugs, was conducted at the jail.
