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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse ReactionsGuidance for Clinicians in the Jan. 24th edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The guidance is a thorough review of the smallpox vaccine with a well-illustrated compendium of complications.
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The study established a policy of routine susceptibility testing of linezolid and quinupristin/dalfopristin isolates of VRE from any sterile site.
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Indices have been developed to help assess the risk of neutropenic patients developing Gram-positive infections when they become febrile that might allow strategies to be developed for managing these infections.
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One of the major changes promoted in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants, is a call for federal legislation expanding protections to all human subjects involved in research, regardless of funding or setting.
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It would seem that two recent publications by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicate a desire by the agency to be less stringent when it comes to the use of inducements for clinical trial participation involving Medicare and Medicaid patients.
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Although some researchers are doing a better job of presenting informed consent documents in language that subjects can understand, too many still rely on jargon and overly technical language that can stymie people with limited literacy.
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As research institutions begin to digest the new recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in Washington, DC, theres general agreement that many changes it promotes in IRB structure and research activities are necessary to better protect human subjects.
