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Emergency department visits in the United States reached a record high of nearly 114 million in 2003, up from 90.3 million visits
in 1993, while the number of EDs decreased by 12% during the same period, to 3,910, according to a report released recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Based on ongoing research with the resurrected 1918 H1N1 pandemic virus, it appears that avian influenza H5N1 bird flu could rapidly adapt and spread through the human population with a few genetic changes that allow a transmission tipping point.
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If avian H5N1 influenza emerges as a pandemic strain, no currently available vaccine will be completely protective. Therefore, the thrust of the nations pandemic influenza plan is aimed at rapidly producing vaccine and stockpiling effective antivirals.
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The virulence of the 1918 pandemic strain was so extraordinary that there are accounts of people who felt well in the morning but were dead by nightfall.
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The pandemic influenza plan recently unveiled by the Department of Health and Human Services specifies four major components of preparedness and response to pandemic influenza:
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A snapshot of the infection control profession at a critical time finds ICPs drawing a median salary in the $50,000 to $59,999 range while facing down everything from looming pandemic flu to consumer demands for infection control report cards.
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What can IRBs do to help reach out to the Hispanic population in their own communities?
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The cost of operating institutional review boards is higher than previous estimates had indicated, according to a survey published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Physicians discussing clinical trials with their patients may not realize the importance of patients fears about side effects in making a decision about whether to participate.
