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CONFERENCE COVERAGE July/August 2014 ACP Internist 13 When you ...
Roos. A history of vaccination againstmeningitis should not dissuade you, either,especially if it’s recent. ... have the European vaccinethat includes serotype B, but it takes 2 weeksfor the vaccine to be effective,” noted Dr.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/acpi-201407-puzzle_t2.pdf
23 Jun 2014
Expert offers advice on moving fast and mastering meningitis
The traditional 3 symptoms of bacterial meningitis are well known: fever, headache, and neck stiffness. But altered mental status should be on that list, too.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/meningitis.htm
1 Jul 2014
MKSAP Quiz: sore throat, daily fever for 5 days
A 19-year-old man is evaluated for a sore throat, daily fever, frontal headache, myalgia, and arthralgia of 5 days' duration. He also has severe discomfort in the lower spine and a rash on his trunk and extremities. He returned from a 7-day trip to the Caribbean 8 days ago. The remainder of the history is noncontributory. Following a physical exam and lab studies, what is the most likely diagnosis?
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/29/3.htm
29 Jul 2014
High-dose flu vaccine may work better in elderly people
A high-dose flu vaccine induced significantly higher antibody responses and provided better protection against laboratory-confirmed influenza than did its standard-dose counterpart among persons 65 years of age or older, an industry-funded study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/19/4.htm
19 Aug 2014
Transitioning from health care to a broader domain of services
Clinicians and the organizations in which they practice are moving beyond episode-based health care delivery and into the communities in which they exist, delivering services that would normally seem outside the scope of medical practice.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/09/residents.htm
1 Sep 2014
Employer exemptions can create gaps in preventive services
The prospect of universal health insurance coverage was threatened when the Supreme Court carved out exemptions to employer-based health coverage, ACP's president says in his column about the College's support of the Affordable Care Act and preventive services without cost sharing.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/09/presidents.htm
1 Sep 2014
Recommendations issued on pneumococcal vaccine in elderly patients
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) should be routinely administered in series to all adults who are at least 65 years of age, the CDC announced last week.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/09/23/4.htm
23 Sep 2014
PERSPECTIVES 4 ACP Internist As part of managing diabetes ...
As another fall begins, so does another flu season. While vaccination is still an impor-tant part of flu prevention, clinicians also need to be prepared to treat those who docome
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/acpi-201410-puzzle_t1.pdf
23 Sep 2014
Data drive debate over antivirals, theory vs. practice
Physicians should focus not only on influenza vaccinations but on treating patients who will get the disease whether they have been vaccinated or not.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/antivirals.htm
1 Oct 2014
Managing diabetes meds more complicated in elderly patients
This issue covers topics including management of diabetes in the elderly, the public release of Medicare payments to physicians, and new approaches to antivirals as flu season begins.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/editors.htm
1 Oct 2014