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Poll: Most voters oppose House and Senate health care bills
June polling shows little backing for provisions in the GOP reform bills.
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Hospital antibiograms may not apply to emergency department patients
Choose empiric antimicrobial therapy for urinary tract infections in the emergency department based on factors associated with differences in...
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Bilateral cellulitis on legs? Think venous stasis dermatitis
If a patient presents with bilateral cellulitis on both legs, think venous stasis dermatitis, which is the number one misdiagnosis of cellulitis...
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Study shows that 20% of inpatients given antibiotics develop adverse reactions
Twenty percent of hospitalized adults given antibiotics develop adverse drug events, including GI, nephrotoxic, hematologic, cardiac, and...
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Safety data review finds no increased risk of infection from abatacept
MADRID – It may be safer than a lot of other antirheumatic drugs.
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ACIP approves new influenza vaccine recommendations
New flu vaccine recommendations focus on children and pregnant women.
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Senate health care proposal already facing uphill battle
Without support from all GOP senators, the plan as written could be DOA.
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If doctors recommend it, teens are more likely to get HPV vaccine
You recommend it, teens get it.
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ACIP approves new hepatitis A vaccine draft recommendations
New recommendations from ACIP target susceptible hepatitis A populations.
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Dengue vaccine appears safe, immunogenic in children aged 2-17 years
An investigational, tetravalent dengue vaccine appears promising in very young children.
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CMS proposes exempting more practices from MACRA
Reduced adminstrative burden is the hallmark of the proposed rule for MACRA’s second year.