Infectious Diseases
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FDA wants manufacturers to show antibacterial soaps are safe, effective
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FDA moves to curtail agricultural antibiotic use
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Quadrivalent flu vaccine effective in 3- to 8-year-olds
Major finding: A total of 2.4% of the flu vaccine group developed influenza A or B, compared with 5.7% of the control group.
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Intranasal ipratropium buys time
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FDA approves sofosbuvir for chronic hepatitis C
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VIDEO: Radioimmunotherapy eyed as possible HIV treatment
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Elimination of measles, rubella sustained in United States
Major finding: A total of 911 cases of measles were reported between 2001 and 2011, which falls below the elimination criterion of 1 case per 1,...
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Once-a-day HCV protease inhibitor approved for treating hepatitis C
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Acellular pertussis vaccines don’t prevent transmission
Major finding: Baboons that received an acellular pertussis vaccine were twice as slow to clear the organism from their systems as were those that...
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Physician recommendation key to HPV vaccine coverage
Major Finding: Studies examining barriers to HPV vaccination among health care professionals and parents both cited the lack of a physician’s...
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Temperature alone doesn’t rule out flu in the ED
Major finding: Thirty-nine of 203 PCR-confirmed influenza patients did not meet CDC influenza-like illness criteria in the ED. Most often, their...