This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

In today's litigious society, it can be easy for the nursing staff to become involved directly or indirectly in legal matters. However, just as the amount of cases has increased, there are some common themes among legal battles involving nursing practitioners that have stood out. By understanding some of the issues at work, nurses can avoid many of the trouble or ...

ATLANTA — The human papillomavirus vaccine was efficacious in preventing persistent infections and genital warts caused by HPV strains 6, 11, 16, and 18 in a Merck-sponsored study of 4,065 males aged 16-26 years. The findings were presented by Dr. Richard M. Haupt at a meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Merck had ...

Promoting breast-feeding could prevent or delay about 720 postneonatal deaths every year in the United States, Dr. Aimin Chen and Dr. Walter J. Rogan said. Breast-feeding is associated with a reduced risk of death not only from infection, but also from injury and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), they reported. In their study, there was a 21% reduced risk of postneonatal ...

Children with autism spectrum disorders had a 5.3-fold greater probability of having a gastrointestinal disorder than did their nonautistic siblings, in a large study of families enrolled in the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange Consortium. Based on these findings, pediatricians should educate families that GI problems do appear to be common in children with autism spectrum disorders, many of whom may not ...

MedWire News: The risk of death from prostate cancer is reduced by 20% with prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening, although there is also a high risk for overdiagnosis, the results of a pan-European study indicate. The impact of PSA-based screening on prostate cancer morality remains unclear, despite the known benefits in terms of detecting early prostate cancer. Consequently, the European Randomized Study ...

MedWire News: Treatment practices for early-stage breast cancer have changed in recent years at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in response to the results of clinical trial findings, study analysis shows. Treatment for early stage breast cancer, particularly in terms of use of adjuvant therapy and surgical practices, has improved considerably over recent years. The study, published ...

MedWire News: Three common genetic variants are associated with circulating levels of natriuretic peptides and blood pressure (BP) in the European population, important research shows. The study appears in the journal Nature Genetics and represents the first discovery of a common gene variant that influences BP, a finding that could potentially lead to new antihypertensive therapies. “It’s well known that hypertension ...

MedWire News: A high body mass index (BMI) is associated with improved all-cause and cardiovascular disease survival in hospitalized, elderly patients with Type 2 diabetes, researchers report. Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and mortality risk in both the general population and in patients with Type 2 diabetes. However, some studies have shown that the opposite is true in hospitalized elderly ...

MedWire News: Study results show that evidence of enteroviral infection is most common in pancreatic islets from patients with Type 1 diabetes, but is also found in some islets of patients with Type 2 diabetes. “Enteroviral infection has long been implicated in triggering autoimmunity, islet inflammation (insulitis), and beta cell death in human Type 1 diabetes,” say Noel Morgan (Peninsula Medical ...

MedWire News: US researchers are calling for new treatment protocols in children with latent tuberculosis (TB). Rifampin should be considered for any child with nonactive TB arriving from an area with isoniazid-resistance exceeding 11%, according to the team. "It will be important that future latent TB infection guidelines address the possibility of drug resistance in high-risk individuals such as children who ...

MedWire News: Children with stroke are most likely to have cerebral arteriopathies if they are of early school age, have sickle cell disease, or a recent upper respiratory tract infection, reports the International Pediatric Stroke Study Group. The group encompasses 30 centers in five continents. For the current study, Heather Fullerton (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and colleagues report on ...