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By asking two simple questions, student health staffers at a Virginia university have found an easy way to zero in on the college students who are most likely to be TB skin test-positive.
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In this question-and-answer interview, Dermot Maher, BM, BCh, medical officer in the Stop TB Department of WHO; Ian Smith, MB, ChB, MPH, and Ger Steenbergen, MD, from the Stop TB Partnership offer some insight into the new international focus on combining TB and HIV/AIDS efforts and why it is necessary.
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Christine Pionk, MS, RN, CS, solved an age-old employee health problem with a high-tech tool. She sends e-mail to remind employees of their annual tuberculosis screening. Pionk is one of several employee health professionals who shared success stories at the conference of the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Health Care in St. Louis.
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Index of 2002 articles organized by subject.
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Understanding the information provided in a sleep study report and knowing how to use it is crucial for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. The combined information from the sleep history and the sleep report allows diagnosis of all sleep disorders.
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Debate over the cardiovascular effects of COX-2 inhibitors has raged
for more than a year since a special communication was published in
JAMA last August suggesting an increase in cardiovascular events with
rofecoxib (Vioxx). Now a large retrospect, the cohort study from the
Tennessee Medicaid program seems to confirm the prothrombotic effects
of rofecoxib, at least in high dose.
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MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of Antioxidant Vitamin Supplementation
in 20,536 High-Risk Individuals; Prolonged Erections Produced by
Dihydrocodeine & Sildenafil; Effect of Magnesium Supplementation of
Blood Pressure; Homocysteine-Lowering Therapy with Folic Acid,
Vitamins, and Clinical Outcome after Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention; Effect of Cataract Surgery on Motor Vehicle Accidents in
Older Adults; Inflammatory Biomarkers, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and
Incident Coronary Heart Disease
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The emergence of chronic wasting disease, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in North American cervids, raises concern about potential transmission to humans, as has occurred elsewhere with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and vCJD.
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Phillips et al have demonstrated that increasing muscular aches and pains often associated with decreased exercise tolerance may, in fact, be due to statin therapy even in patients with normal CPK determinations.
