February 24, 2020
Healthcare acquired infections are infections that patients get while receiving treatment for medical or surgical conditions and many are preventable. At any one time in the […]
October 27, 2019
It is estimated that about 27,510 cases of gastric cancer will be diagnosed, and 11,140 people will die from this type of cancer in 2019. Gastric […]
October 21, 2019
Workers in hospitals, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings face significant risks of workplace violence. From 2002 to 2013, the rate of serious workplace violence incidents […]
August 17, 2019
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. In 2017, 10 million people around the world became sick with TB disease, and there were 1.3 […]
August 5, 2019
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop after exposure to a potentially traumatic event that is beyond a typical stressor, such as violent assaults, natural or human-caused […]
July 14, 2019
Each year, approximately 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported to CDC by state health departments. Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected […]
July 7, 2019
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). Seventy-nine million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. […]
May 20, 2019
THE WEEK’S CME TRENDING TOPIC IS INSOMNIA A third of US adults report that they usually get less than the recommended amount of sleep. Not getting […]
May 11, 2019
With an increasingly mobile population, people are traveling all over the world. Depending on their destination, they will need different types of immunizations, vaccinations, prophylaxis, etc. […]