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To help you prepare for sweeping procedural changes, Thomson American Health Consultants is offering "Imminent Smallpox Vaccinations in Hospitals: Consequences for You and Your Facility," a 90-minute audio conference Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 2-3:30 p.m., Eastern time.
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Because failure to diagnose severe hand injuries is associated with significant medical legal risk, emergency physicians should access the surgeons specializing in hand injuries whenever the diagnosis or management plan is in doubt. In this article, the author provides a comprehensive review and management strategies for common hand fractures and neurovascular injuries.
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Thomson American Health Consultants is offering an hour-long audio conference, "HIPAA's Final Privacy Regulations: What You Must Know to Comply," Dec. 4, 2002, from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Eastern time.
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Expanding upon their earlier study that demonstrated that spouses of hypertensive patients are more likely to be hypertensive themselves, these British researchers studied couples to determine whether other illnesses exhibited the same association.
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Among patients being evaluated for chronic cough, women are more sensitive than men to inhalation of tussive agents.
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GlaxoSmithKline is expected to launch a new drug for benign prostatic hypertrophy in December. Dutasteride is a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor, which was previously approved in November 2001 but not launched.
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Debate over the cardiovascular effects of COX-2 inhibitors has raged
for more than a year since a special communication was published in
JAMA last August suggesting an increase in cardiovascular events with
rofecoxib (Vioxx). Now a large retrospect, the cohort study from the
Tennessee Medicaid program seems to confirm the prothrombotic effects
of rofecoxib, at least in high dose.
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