CDC offers new guidance on drug-resistant TB
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued new tuberculosis treatment guidelines to curb the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis. These include administering four drugs in the first two months of treatment; isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide and, ethambutol or streptomycin. In addition, physicians are urged to consider directly observed therapy and to perform and report drug susceptibility testing on the first bacterial isolate from all patients.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1993
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AMA will offer input on safety of silicone implants
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The American Medical Assn (AMA) will offer to assist the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in evaluating the safety of silicone breast implants and other silicone medical devices. In addition, AMA delegates urged the FDA to safety test products that have not been tested on animals by the manufacturer. They also made a number of unrelated recommendations, such as encouraging study of food irradiation in slowing food spoilage and killing organisms.
Publication Name: American Medical News
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0001-1843
Year: 1992
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