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RSV vaccine, OTC naloxone approved

The FDA also updated the prescribing information for immediate-release opioid pain medicines to note that these products should not be used for an extended period, among other recent actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/05/24/rsv-vaccine-otc-naloxone-approved.htm
24 May 2023

Vaccine recommendations updated for pneumococcus, Tdap and flu

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued a new adult immunization schedule.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/30/4.htm
30 Jan 2013

Study finds no difference between N95 masks, surgical masks in clinical settings

In this meta-analysis, outcomes from clinical studies were laboratory-confirmed respiratory infection, influenza-like illness, and workplace absenteeism, while outcomes from surrogate exposure studies were filter penetration, face-seal leakage, and total inward leakage.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/16/3.htm
16 Mar 2016

New drugs for C. diff, type 1 diabetes

The FDA recently approved the first fecal microbiota product for preventing Clostridioides difficile recurrence and an injection to delay progression of type 1 diabetes, among other actions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/12/21/new-drugs-for-c-diff-type-1-diabetes.htm
21 Dec 2022

Guidelines not always followed in patients with CAP

A study of data from 177 U.S. hospitals found that almost all patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) received blood cultures and less than a quarter were tested for influenza.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/02/guidelines-not-always-followed-in-patients-with-cap.htm
2 Mar 2022

August 24, 2022

ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/24/

Quadruple dose of influenza vaccine may offer HIV patients better protection

HIV-infected patients who received a quadruple dose of seasonal influenza vaccine had a higher antibody response and greater seroconversion rate than did those who received a standard dose, with similar rates of adverse events, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/09/6.htm
9 Jan 2013