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Would your ethics committee approve a request to perform nontherapeutic surgery that would permanently alter the body of a healthy patient without his or her consent? What if the patient was very young and the parents wanted the surgery for religious or cultural reasons?
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The privacy regulations enacted as part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have caused some unforeseen complications for hospitals trying to ensure patient safety and improve communication between providers and patients, say health care professionals and legal experts.
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Updated EMTALA rule eases hospitals risk; Johns Hopkins program loses its accreditation; AMA to provide ethics alerts to MDs
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Management of Lipodystrophy in HIV: A Mini-Update; Yersiniosis Outbreak in Black Infants; Transfusion- Associated WNV
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The challenge facing the global community is to immediately marshall sufficient resources to ensure rapid scale-up of life-saving prevention strategies. Global HIV Prevention Working Group 2003
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Carbapenems are a class of ß-lactam antibiotics that offer broad-spectrum therapy for patients with a variety of infections, including skin/skin structure, intra-abdominal, lower respiratory tract, meningitis, urinary tract, and bone/joint infections.
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Azithromycin is an effective, single-drug therapy for mild-to-moderate community-acquired pneumonia.
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Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile enemy. It is spreading in the community, as well as in the hospital, with increasing resistance to antibiotics. Its armamentarium now includes not only resistance to methicillin and vancomycin but also means of spread and pathogenic mechanisms we clearly need to know more aboutand soon.
