Infectious Diseases
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Boceprevir an option for patients with HIV and HCV
Major finding: At follow-up week 24, 63% of patients in the boceprevir group achieved sustained virological response, compared with 29% of...
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WHO ratchets up its MERS coronavirus response
Applied Evidence
Skin infections in athletes: Treating the patient, protecting the team
When your patient is an athlete with a cutaneous infection, you have dual concerns: eradicating the infection and eliminating the risk to his...
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School nurses
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USPSTF: Screen baby boomers for hepatitis C
Major finding: Key numerical finding (e.g., number needed to treat to prevent one death/event; number lived or died as result of intervention)....
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No evidence of increased Guillain-Barre syndrome after immunization
Major finding: Only 415 patients during 32,734,642 person-years of observation developed GBS, and only 25 of them did so within 6 weeks of...
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Updated acute bacterial sinusitis guidelines include four major changes
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CDC panel recommends egg-free influenza vaccine
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Encephalitis travel vaccine recommendation expanded to children
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FDA approves first hepatitis C genotype test
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Infection protocols contain hospital-acquired MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia
Major finding: Fifteen of 23 people with laboratory-confirmed Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infections died in an outbreak at four...