Critical Updates


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Selected News Items and Updates for the Practicing Clinician

Zachary Mulkey						MDa



Correspondence to Zachary Mulkey	MD. Email: zachary.mulkey @ttuhsc.edu


  


 + Author Affiliation - Author Affiliation
  
    aDepartment of Internal Medicine, TTUHSC, Lubbock, TX.

    






SWRCCC 2014;2(8):70.

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• Mandatory Ebola news updates.

                                                                                            

• Nurses in Boston are planning to sue Brigham and Women’s Hospital over their mandatory flu shot policy.

• Whether or not influenza vaccination helps pregnant women and their infants has been an ongoing question. The response to vaccination by patients with immune suppression is also an unknown. A recent study sheds some light on these issues. 

• There may be a seasonal variation to Clostridium difficile infections.

• The Ebola pandemic has recently obscured the developing national problem with Enterovirus D68. To get the latest information from the CDC on this topic, click here.