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In This Issue: Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
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Mummies are fascinating. they represent a special snapshot of our human past when contemporaries respected our human forms enough to try to preserve them indefinitely.
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Threats to laboratory workers come in many varieties, ranging from earthquakes to fires. But one threat that has acquired enhanced visibility in this age of bioterrorism is the threat of a laboratory-acquired infection.
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Pneumococcal meningitis remains a deadly disease, with a case fatality rate among adults that is still above 20%, with also permanent neurological sequelae in a substantial minority of survivors.
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In the health care setting, transmission of varicella zoster virus (VZV) from dermatomal herpes zoster lesions is generally felt to be insignificant, as long as the lesions are kept covered.
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Exactly 1397 antiretroviral (ARV) naïve patients initiating ARVs, as part of a CPCRA-sponsored clinical trial (FIRST trial), were followed for a median of five years.
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The utility of surveillance screening for MRSA on hospital admission remains controversial. Three recently published clinical trials attempt to assess the role of MRSA surveillance.
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All patients admitted to the ICU at the Air Force Theater Hospital (Balad, Iraq) were followed prospectively for the development of VAP. There were 475 patients admitted to the ICU from May 2006 through August 2006.
