Nearly half of all professional infection preventionists say they believe that catheter infections are a problem where they work, according to a survey sponsored by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Newest postings (July 7, 2010): Insurance Advocate, California; Medical Librarian, California; Reference and Education Librarian, Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Louisiana; Health Information QC Specialist, Frederick, Maryland. The MLANET job page is updated weekly on Wednesdays. Jobs appear chronologically, with the most recent postings at the top of the page, and then alphabetically by state. (Source: Medical Library Association News)
A new population-based has demonstrated an association between a group of human papillomaviruses viruses and an increased incidence of squamous cell carcinomas, adding weight to the emerging body of evidence that one genus of HPV may play a role in nonmelanocytic skin cancers.
The Resources for Disaster Planning and Response presentation given at the 2010 Medical Library Association meeting in Washington, DC is now available online. (Source: News from the Division of Specialized Information Services)
People with hypertension trained to monitor their own blood pressure and adjust their own medication achieve greater control over their disease than do patients whose hypertension is managed through conventional care, according to new research.
Survival after lung transplantation varies widely across the 61 U.S. medical centers where it is performed, according to a report in the July 7 issue of JAMA.
Elevated plasma levels of a protein called clusterin appear to correlate with the degree of brain atrophy, the severity of symptoms, and the speed of the clinical progression of Alzheimers disease, according to a report in the July issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
