Travel Medicine Advisor Archives – September 1, 2009

September 1, 2009

• Multiple Test Methods for the Detection of Novel H1N1

  The energetic Christine Ginocchio (Director of Clinical and Molecular Microbiology Laboratories for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Healthcare System) began receiving an unusual gift beginning on April 24, 2009.

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• Guidelines: Opportunistic Infections and HIV Patients

  These guidelines were last updated for adults in 2002 and for adolescents in 2004. The document (available in pdf format through the link above) is a 209-page file containing 1,391 references that update current recommendations for the prophylaxis and treatment of HIV-related OIs.

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• Pharmacology Watch: Tamoxifen, SSRIs, and Breast Cancer Recurrence

  In this issue: Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings.

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