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Influenza vaccination of healthy children is necessary to prevent the majority of influenza-associated pediatric morbidity and mortality.
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Rapid antigen testing may serve as an early warning system in influenza surveillance.
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Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
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Data from a prospective cohort study demonstrate benefit from initiation of antiretroviral therapy at CD4 counts of 201-350/mm3. The possibility of benefit from initiation at even higher CD4 counts was also raised.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) profile of communicable diseases in Iraq was recently updated. The stated purpose of this publication is to provide public health professionals working in Iraq and neighboring countries with up-to-date information on the major communicable disease threats faced by the population.
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Extrapolating from epidemiological data, Watson and colleagues estimate that 1 in 300-500 travelers are asplenic.
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New research from the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) indicates that for many postmenopausal women, combined hormone therapy does not have a clinically significant effect on their health-related quality of life.
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With fluoroquinolone-resistant gonorrhea becoming more common in the United States, clinicians have looked to two treatment alternatives, cefixime and ceftriaxone, to combat the sexually transmitted disease (STD).
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Since the NuvaRing contraceptive vaginal ring (Organon, West Orange, NJ) entered the U.S. market in mid-2002, new research has been published that underscores its efficacy and acceptability.
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It is estimated some 50 million women in the United States are screened on an annual basis with Pap tests. Clinicians now have another tool in their arsenal that will help distinguish women at increased risk of developing cervical cancer from those at very low risk.
