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At least three similar but distinct strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are emerging in the United States, rendering common empiric therapy useless and causing aggressive skin infections, Healthcare Infection Prevention has learned.
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A recent patient safety report by an Institute of Medicine committee in Washington, DC, includes the following true firsthand account of a staffing problem leading to a nosocomial infection.
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Emerging infections, bioterrorism, and the patient safety movement are converging along with changes in the health care delivery system to reinvent the role of infection control. But the rising profile of infection control professionals is not necessarily lifting salaries along with it.
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Update your knowledge on current issues in reproductive health at the annual Contraceptive Technology conference. The Washington, DC, session is scheduled for Feb. 29-March 3, with the San Francisco session set for March 24-27.
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Will adding male programs to existing family planning services subtract from existing care?
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Review the number of services offered at your family planning agency, then check off the number that address the reproductive health needs of men. If your agency is like most of the facilities participating in a recently published survey, you may be serving some male patients, but doing very little to recruit more.
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From adolescence on, most men need information and counseling about sexual and reproductive matters, and they need somewhere reliable to go for related education and health care.
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When you review birth control options with your female patients, you tick off several items: a shot, a patch, an intravaginal ring, intra-uterine devices, barrier methods, and several types of pills.
