Despite local and national efforts to encourage influenza vaccination, the overall vaccination rate among US healthcare workers remains unacceptably low. What can be done to improve rates? Medscape Infectious Diseases
A retrospective review shows that buprenorphine produces similar effects in children as do other opioids, including central nervous system and respiratory depression, miosis, and vomiting. Medscape Medical News
This study provides further support to the concept that achieving low triglyceride levels may be an additional consideration beyond LDL-C in patients after acute coronary syndrome. Journal of the American College of Cardiology
A new study has found a disturbing variation between the prescribed dose of radiation and the actual amount delivered to tumors. Researchers are calling for new guidelines to address this problem. Medscape Medical News
