Items Tagged ‘Hepatitis C’
October 9, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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August 14, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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June 19, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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May 22, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
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November 8, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
November 8, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
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April 3, 2013
Rochester lawmakers look to crack down on hospital drug thieves
A hospital worker secretly steals a patient’s pain medication and replaces the contaminated syringe with saline solution, exposing the patient to a potentially deadly virus, such as hepatitis C. It’s a problem that is becoming all too common, according to Dr. Keith Berge, chairman of Mayo Clinic’s Drug Diversion Prevention Committee…It’s cases like this that […]
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June 15, 2012
A recent Hepatitis C outbreak at a New Hampshire hospital could have been sparked by a junkie hospital worker who was shooting up and then injecting patients with the same needles, health officials warned. So far, 20 patients treated at Exeter Hospital’s cardiac catheterization laboratory have tested positive for the liver-destroying disease… Last month, a […]
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June 12, 2012
NH Explores Drug Use by Hospital Employees in Major Hepatitis C Outbreak
New Hampshire health officials are still exploring all possibilities for the cause of a hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital. That word came Monday from Dr. Jose Montero, the state’s public health director, who said an investigation into the outbreak remains inconclusive, more than three weeks after the Division of Public Health Services began probing […]
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May 21, 2012
CDC Considering Recommending Hepatitis C Test for Boomers
It’s a “silent epidemic,” an “unrecognized health crisis,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it’s affecting 2.1 million baby boomers in the United States. The CDC announced Friday that it is considering recommending Hepatitis C testing for everyone born between 1945 and 1965. Currently the CDC recommends this testing only for […]
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April 3, 2012
Lessons Shared from Transmission of Hepatitis C Infection to Patients
Findings of an extensive investigation at Mayo Clinic, published in the April 3 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, serve as a warning to other health care institutions that drug diversion by a health care worker can spread hepatitis C, a potentially fatal viral infection, to patients. The report details the effort that Mayo […]
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