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After some pointed discussion and one dissenting vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recently endorsed recommendations to immunize health care workers with the new pertussis vaccine.
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Voluntary annual influenza immunization programs that use educational efforts and other incentives to vaccinate health care workers have been an abject failure, a leading proponent of mandatory flu shots said recently in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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With reports of more than 100 health care workers infected with mumps during a Midwest outbreak that now exceeds 4,000 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all health care workers should have immunity to mumps and even those born before 1957 should receive one dose of vaccine.
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Two leading infection control and immunization advisory committees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have jointly endorsed new guidelines to give the new Tdap vaccine to health care workers to protect them and their patients from pertussis.
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Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain (DPNP) is an important pain syndrome that has not received attention commensurate with its clinically and epidemiologically compelling presence.
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Controlling healthcare costs is tricky business, and sometimes the best intentions have adverse outcomes, as pointed out in a new study in the June 1st New England Journal of Medicine.
