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June 19th, 2013 
John Buck
Nearly 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids are most commonly prescribed, their study found. Twenty percent of patients are on five or more prescription medications, according to the findings, published online in the journal Mayo Clinic [...]
June 19th, 2013 John BuckOnly eight months into its $100 million, five-year enterprise analytics effort, UPMC and its research partners at the University of Pittsburgh are starting to see the potential of this “big data” technology for accelerating scientific discoveries and the promise of personalized medicine. With the foundational architecture of UPMC’s new enterprise data warehouse in place, Pitt [...]
June 18th, 2013 John BuckFour exceptional nurses have been awarded nursing scholarships by the March of Dimes for graduate and doctoral studies in the field of maternal-child nursing. “These promising candidates are poised to make great strides in their fields, and the March of Dimes is proud to help them continue their education,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president [...]
June 18th, 2013 John Buck
In the wake of the deadly infections in 2012 from drugs compounded at the New England Compounding Center (NECC), a new study examines similar outbreaks in the US over the last 12 years in an effort to discover factors that may hinder outbreak detection. The article, “Description of Outbreaks of Health-Care-Associated Infections Related to Compounding [...]
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Tags: AJHP, ASHP, Compounding, Infection, NECC, Pharmaceutical, prevention 
No Comments » June 18th, 2013 John BuckMayo Clinic and other researchers have shown that a vaccine given to newborns is at least 60% effective against rotavirus in Ghana. Rotavirus causes fever, vomiting and diarrhea, which in infants can cause severe dehydration. In developed nations, the condition often results in an emergency room visit or an occasional hospitalization, but is rarely fatal. [...]
Posted in Acute/Ambulatory, Associations & Groups, Cardiovascular/Pulmonary, Colleagues, Community Health, Family/General Practice, Lab, Nurse Practitioners, Nursing, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Tags: Infectious Disease, Mayo Clinic, Neonatal, Pediatric, Rotavirus, Vaccine No Comments »
