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In this issue: FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval of dabigatran, safety of proton pump inhibitors, effectiveness of glucosamine and chondroitin, FDA Actions.
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Initial association analysis was performed on 205 african-americans with biopsy-proven FSGS and 180 African-American controls.
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In October 2009, the FDA licensed the bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV2; Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline) for use in females aged 10 through 25 years.
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In numbers whose precise appearance veils the reality that they are estimates and underestimates at that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 94,360 people in the United States acquired invasive MRSA infections in 2005 and 18,650 of them died.
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The following are personally submitted accounts to the MRSA Survivors Network (http://www.mrsasurvivors.org) Though edited slightly for spelling and grammar, they are left in the words of the patients.
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In 2003, Jeanine Thomas of Hinesdale, IL, founded the MRSA Survivors Network, the organization which successfully lobbied to have Oct. 2 declared World MRSA Day and October World MRSA Month. A tireless activist for MRSA awareness, Thomas recently sat down with Hospital Infection Control & Prevention for the following interview.
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During last year's H1N1 influenza pandemic, health care workers inadvertently transmitted flu to their co-workers, in some cases triggering a hospital-based outbreak.
