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States across the nation are gearing up for a cold fall and winter when it comes to funding for the AIDS Drugs Assistance Programs (ADAPs).
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A recent study shows a link between very high-risk sexual behavior and meeting sex partners on-line, according to New York researchers.
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The public health response to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been strikingly rapid on many fronts, but a global pandemic of a new infectious disease still is a real possibility, the author warned.
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Even though malaria infections still kill more than a million people each year, the disease itself appears to occur uncommonly among travelers. In this surveillance summary, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide a vivid reminder that malaria still is a real problem for many travelers.
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The recent monkeypox outbreak in 6 midwestern states has been associated with exposure to sick pet prairie dogs that were infected through contact with imported Gambian giant rats and dormice at an Illinois animal facility.
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African tick bite fever is an emerging infectious disease affecting travelers to parts of Africa and possibly other areas of the world.
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Infectious disease experts and their colleagues in government continue to struggle to determine just who should receive smallpox vaccine in approaching the bioterrorism threat.
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These are the required steps in the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations Universal Protocol for eliminating wrong-site, wrong-procedure, wrong-person surgery.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations recently called on hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to reduce the risk of serious and deadly fires in operating rooms with its set of 7 Absolutes to help you educate operating room staff.
