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Investigators in Washington, DC, have discovered cases of HIV patients who have significant liver dysfunction that is caused by secondary syphilis instead of the usual suspects of hepatitis C, medication side effects, and substance abuse.
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When a Nashville, TN, church spreads the word about HIV/AIDS education, the repercussions can be felt hundreds of miles away.
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A new survey shows that most primary care practitioners often fail to offer HIV testing to their sexually active patients, and many even neglect to offer the test to pregnant patients.
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AIDSinfo recently began a new service on its web site called Live Help. AIDSinfo is a web site sponsored by agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Gilead Sciences Inc. in Forest City, CA, has issued a Dear Health Care Professional letter describing high rates of virologic failure in patients treated with a once-daily triple NRTI regimen containing Didanosine (ddI, Videx EC), Lamivudine (3TC, Epivir), and Tenofovir (Viread).
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Innovative thinking approaches that arise in industry often find their initial applications to be most effective in a manufacturing setting. Not all of them, however, transfer readily into the occupational health setting. One that apparently does is called systems thinking.
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While interactive planning has been used in many different organizations, the article by James E. Leemann, PhD, in Systemic Practice and Action Research is the first to address such an approach in an occupational health environment. Accordingly, Leemann has outlined a number of outcomes he believes would be useful for others planning a similar initiative.
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A report recently issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health counsels that employers should not dismiss job stress associated with working with people with developmental disabilities as a necessary evil that employees simply must accept
as part of their job.
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