Alabama Jun. 7-8: Practice management boot camp. Birmingham. (14 hrs: P) Sponsor: American Academy of Medical Management. Contact Carol Evans: 770-649-7150. Jul. 8-9: Practice management boot camp. Birmingham. (14 hrs: P) Sponsor: Amer
Apr. 15-17: Coronary heart disease update. Aruba. (11 hrs: P) Sponsor: Medical Education Resources. Contact Stephen Mattingly: 303-798-9682. Apr. 26-May 5: International family medicine: Iceland. Iceland. (10 hrs: P) Sponsor: University of New
May 14-18: 4th Woodland Park medical staff symposium. Mediterranean. (10 hrs: P) Sponsor: Woodland Park Hospital. Contact Nancy Pritchard: 503-257-5670. Aug. 13-25: Challenges in medicine. Iceland/New York. (24 hrs: P) Sponsor: Professional Ed
Jun. 1-4, 2004: Conference of the European Society of General Practice/Family Medicine, WONCA region Europe. Amsterdam, Holland. Sponsor: Dutch College of General Practitioners (NHG). Contact Jolanda Bladt, Dutch College of General Practitioners, P.O.
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On February 13, 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that physicians temporarily suspend routine use of the fourth dose of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7, marketed as Prevnar) when vaccinating healthy c
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created a clinical decision-support tool for personal digital assistants (PDAs) designed to help physicians quickly determine whether patients with community-acquired pneumonia should be treate
In this issue of American Family Physician, we begin an article series based on the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO[R]) course with an article on shoulder dystocia by Baxley and Gobbo. (1) The ALSO program was developed initially at the Univ
All Americans are exposed to pesticides. Among approximately 1,900 subjects selected in 1999 and 2000 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to represent the United States population six to 59 years of age, at least 90 perc
AFP recently reinforced its efforts in evidence-based medicine (EBM) with the addition of a new contributing editor, Henry C. Barry, M.D., M.S., who will help evaluate and apply the SOR (strength of recommendation) labeling taxonomy to review articles
Author: Carrie Morantz, Brian Torrey
Date: March 1, 2005
The Clinician Information Line of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has added three conditions--mass trauma, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)/variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), and viral hemorrhagic fevers--to its expanding list of disease topics.
The information line now covers 16 topics: smallpox, influenza/avian influenza, ricin, severe acute respiratory syndrome, radiation, West Nile virus, chlorine, anthrax, botulism, plague, nerve agents, tularemia, viral hemorrhagic fevers, hurricane recovery, mass trauma, and BSE/vCJD.
Clinicians with questions relating to any of these topics can call the hotline toll-free at 877-554-4625. The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is staffed by registered nurses with access to the latest CDC guidelines and information. In addition, the nurses can connect callers to their local and state public health departments. Additional information is available online at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/coca.
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