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• 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Monovalent Vaccines for Children [Editorial]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  5 hours ago

• New Whitehall clinical director for informatics - a good choice

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 116
  The Department of Health has just announced that it has appointedCharles Gutteridge first national clinical director forinformatics. Gutteridge has been the Medical Director at Barts and the London Trustsince 2002 and so has seen at first hand the problems of introducingthe Cerner Millennium NPfIT Care Records ...
  11 hours ago

• Sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressants associated with an increased risk of falling in older people

  
  NPCi blog — Authority: 112
  4 January 2010 A meta-analysis has found that, in people older than 60 years, benzodiazepines, other sedatives and hypnotics, and antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of falling of around 50-70% in relative terms. Antihypertensives and NSAIDs may also be associated with a smaller, but still ...
  16 hours ago

• Katrina Hospitals Victims “Literally dead in the water”

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 427
  Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, much has been written about deaths that could have been prevented but for the negligence of various institutions.  We’ve covered the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers ,  and its “monumental negligence” for not maintaining the levees that collapsed.  But now, we ...
  1 day ago

• The Cookie Diet : Does it Really Work?

  
  Smart for Life Cookie Diet — Authority: 135
  The Cookie Diet is a popular diet that boasts eating six cookies, one full dinner meal, vegetables, and liquids on a daily basis for a total of 800 calories to lose weight quickly and safely. Does a diet based around cookies really work? Sure it does! Dr. Sanford Siegal has created a diet called “The Cookie ...
  6 days ago

• Physicians More Likely To Report Drug Safety Information Via EHR

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 154
  ‘Pfizer announced results of a survey the company recently sponsored that shows physicians are more likely to report side effects through an electronic health records (EHR) system, as compared to traditional paper methods. Nearly 60 percent of physicians who responded to the survey also agreed that adverse event ...
  6 days ago

• Efficacy Data and HPV Vaccination Studies--Reply [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  1 week ago

• Strength of Study Evidence Examined by the FDA in Premarket Approval of Cardiovascular Devices [Review]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  Context  Medical devices are common in clinical practice and have important effects on morbidity and mortality, yet there has not been a systematic examination of evidence used by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for device approval. Objectives  To study premarket approval (PMA)—the most stringent FDA ...
  1 week ago

• Efficacy Data and HPV Vaccination Studies [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  1 week ago

• Strengthening Institutional Review Board Review of Highly Innovative Interventions in Clinical Trials [Commentary]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  1 week ago

• Efficacy Data and HPV Vaccination Studies [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  1 week ago

• AIIMS to guide 40 medical colleges on drug reaction

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will help at least 40 medical colleges in the country in understanding the adverse reactions from commonly used drugs.“It is envisaged that the programme will initially start with 40 medical colleges in 2010 and will involve all the medical ...
  1 week ago

• Smoking in Facial Aesthetic Surgery Patients

  
  Suture for a Living — Authority: 433
  Just finished reading a CME article on “Aesthetic  Surgery of the Face and Neck” in the Nov/Dec issue of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal (the first article referenced below).  Nice review article, but I want to just concentrate on the section on smoking.  This is the time of year when many resolutions are made, ...
  1 week ago

• Patient safety coalition completes first project

  
  BuscoVoice — Authority: 138
  The Northeast Indiana Patient Safety Coalition announced it has completed its first project aimed at enhancing patient safety at hospitals in the area.
  1 week ago

• Getting patients home safely after a hospital stay

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 136
  New America Media ’s Paul Kleyman explores the effects of hospitals cutting corners when it comes to patient transitions from hospital to home, a problem his sources call one of the biggest gaps in the health care system. Citing a widely reported 2009 New England Journal of Medicine article on preventable ...
  1 week ago

• After Nearly 7 Years of Torturous “Tort Reforms,” Rural Texans Ask: Where are the Docs?

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 427
  If you obliterate patients’ rights, they will come (the doctors, that is).  And if you don’t, they’ll leave.  So goes the oft-repeated promise – and threat – of the insurance industry and medical lobbies.  We’re all too familiar with how the “access to care” issue tends to be discussed – couched ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patient Safety Coalition completes first project

  
  The AroundFortWayne Blog — Authority: 144
  Press release from Parkview Hospital:Patient Safety Coalition completes first project
  2 weeks ago

• 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Monovalent Vaccines for Children [Editorial]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  
  2 weeks ago

• Immunogenicity of a Monovalent 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine in Infants and Children: A Randomized Trial [Preliminary Communication]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 450
  Context  In the ongoing influenza pandemic, a safe and effective vaccine against 2009 influenza A(H1N1) is needed for infants and children. Objective  To assess the immunogenicity and safety of a 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccine in children. Design, Setting, and Participants  Randomized, observer-blind, ...
  2 weeks ago

• QD: News Every Day--health reform, H1N1 and patient safety

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 126
  ACP Internist s daily digest of news and events continues. Health care reform Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is still hoping to pass a health care reform bill before Christmas, but negotiations and roadblocks continue as the weekend approaches. Republicans are attempting to stall a vote with ...
  2 weeks ago

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