CDC Issues Ebola Guidelines as Cases Continue to Occur

Advocacy groups continue to scorn screening guidelines.

Clinical trials of Ebola vaccine must continue despite fall in number of cases.

Clinical trials of a vaccine against Ebola virus disease being conducted in west Africa must continue even if there are not enough definitive data on the vaccine’s effectiveness, a report by a panel of international experts has said. The panel, convened by theWellcome Trust and the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, urged the continuation of the trials ...

Seeking Balance Between Pain Relief and Safety: CDC Issues New Opioid-Prescribing Guidelines.

Pain is a symptom common tonumerousphysical andpsychiatric ailments andcanoftenbemanagedby treating theunderlyingcondition.However, inapproximately20millionpatients eachyear,chronicpainpersistsdespitetreatment.1,2Chronicpain is complex, heterogeneous, and poorly understood. Patientswithchronicpainexperience a decreased quality of lifeandincreasedrisk formultiplecomorbidities,costingsocietybilli...

CDC Updates Guidelines for Children’s Lead Exposure

In response to the growing body of scientific evidence about effects of exposure to low levels of lead, 1 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced it is changing its guidelines for children's exposure to the toxic metal, reducing by half the blood lead level at which intervention is recommended. 2 According to CDC spokesman Jay Dempsey, the agency estimates the ch...

CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) constitute an epidemic of tremendous magnitude, with an estimated 15 million persons acquiring a new STD each year [1]. Effective clinical management of STDs represents a strategic element in prevention of HIV infection and in efforts to improve reproductive and sexual health. Clinicians who evaluate persons with STDs or those at risk for STDs should be awar...