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The New York Times
In recent years, health officials have pushed aggressively to include more women in clinical trials of new drugs. Gone is the ban that once excluded women of childbearing age from participating in studies. Even scientists who work with animals are now encouraged to include mice and rats of both sexes.
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Contagion Live
As antimicrobial resistance and the risk of so-called “superbugs” have become major issues in the healthcare industry, some organizations have raced to develop internal processes to mitigate resistance, usually under the banner of an “antimicrobial stewardship program.” That’s good news, insofar as it suggests hospitals are working hard to actively reduce the risks inherent to treatment at hospitals.
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Penn State via ScienceDaily
Papillomavirus has traditionally been considered strictly a sexually transmitted disease, but a recent study found that rabbit and mouse papillomaviruses could be transferred by blood to their respective hosts. Penn State researchers on the study said this raises the possibility that human papillomavirus may also be transferable by blood in humans.
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HealthDay News
Ten cancer drugs being tested in human clinical trials appear to work — but not in the ways their developers thought they would, researchers say.
"The idea for many of these drugs is that they block the function of a certain protein in cancer cells. And what we showed is that most of these drugs don't work by blocking the function of the protein that they were reported to block," said study co-leader Jason Sheltzer, a fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
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Drug Topics
Antibiotics have long been prescribed to treat and prevent the flare-ups associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but both their short-term remedial and long-term prophylactic use is not without some controversy. Although three quarters of all COPD patients receive antibiotics for a flare-up, only a third of flare-ups are actually caused by bacterial infections, which antibiotics are designed to treat.
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Dark Daily
Medicare scams involving orders for unnecessary, expensive testing are not new. However, clinical laboratory managers and anatomic pathologists need to be aware — particularly those working in hospital and health system labs — that an entirely new wave of fraud involving medical laboratory testing is gaining momentum. This time, instead of specialty cardiology, toxicology and pain management testing, the scam involves genetic tests.
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American Medical Technologists
Enhance your credentials to work in the rapidly expanding field of molecular diagnostics.
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Infectious Disease Advisor
Serotype-specific immunoglobulin G responses to the pneumococcal vaccine Pneumovax®23 were greater in patients with subnormal IgG1 than subnormal IgG3, according to data published in BMC Immunology. Investigators compared the response to the Pneumovax®23 vaccine in 59 adults who demonstrated subnormal IgG subclass concentrations.
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Infection Control Today
ICT spoke with Caroline Haggerty, R.N., M.S.N., manager of quality and patient safety for Penn Medicine in West Chester, Pennsylvania, about the importance of shared accountability relating to environmental cleaning in the healthcare environment. At this year's APIC annual meeting, Haggerty was the recent presenter of a talk titled, "Who Cleans What? Improving Cleanliness of the Hospital Environment," in which she shared how her 700-bed hospital created a multidisciplinary-shared accountability model for cleaning the patient environment and equipment.
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CIDRAP
In three days, 12 more Ebola cases were confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lifting the overall outbreak total to 3,081. In other developments, the DRC, with support from its global health partners, launched new infection prevention and control efforts to curb healthcare-acquired infections.
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