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Title: Health Tip: Doing Your Baby's Laundry
Category: Health News
Created: 11/12/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/12/2008

Title: Health Tip: Protect Baby From Diaper Rash
Category: Health News
Created: 11/11/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/11/2008

Title: Hirschsprung's Disease
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 10/29/2008

Title: etodolac, Lodine
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 10/17/2008

Title: Proton-Pump Inhibitors
Category: Medications
Created: 6/7/2001
Last Editorial Review: 10/9/2008

Title: indomethacin, Indocin, Indocin-SR
Category: Medications
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 9/16/2008

A new report from medical and scientific experts recommends among other things that trainee doctors' hours and workload in the US be reduced and their supervision be increased because they make too many fatigue-related medical mistakes and they need a better learning environment.

In a recent update of the Dutch contingency plan for controlling outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever emergency vaccination is preferred to large-scale preemptive culling. Our modelling study evaluates the implications of this policy change. We find that vaccination in a ring of 2-km radius around a detected infection source is as effective as ring culling in a 1-km radius.

Antiviral drugs play a central role in current plans for managing an influenza pandemic. However, their ability to reduce symptoms and infectivity in cases, and to reduce susceptibility of individuals given antivirals prophylactically must be confirmed for the pandemic virus strain.