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Check out the following Internet resources for more information on hormone therapy.
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If the number of men on your patient rosters is low, take a look at the approach used by Planned Parenthood of San Antonio and South Central Texas. In the first year of its marketing initiative, the number of its male patients nearly doubled from 2% to 3.7% of total patients served.
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Noroviruses are a frequent cause of acute gastroenteritis. During the last 2 months of 2002 in a single health district in Washington state, 10 outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis attributable to norovirus were investigated. These events affected 354 patients in 6 long-term care facilities, a community hospital, an outpatient clinic, and the county jail.
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Despite many years of practice, a recent questionnaire about therapeutic drug monitoring of vancomycin revealed marked variability and a lack of consensus regarding postdose assay sampling times, target ranges, and what constituted a toxic level.
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KS Fails to Respond to Cidofovir; Acyclovir & Renal Dysfunction; Broad-Range Bacterial PCR in Meningitis; Why is BCG Less Virulent than MTb?.
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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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Barrett E-P. St. John's wort for the treatment of depression: An update. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(3):25-30.
