The New York Times’ Jeff Jaffe reported on Thursday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a set of new guidelines for doctors and nurses to follow to protect patients from contracting HIV from HIV-infected needles.These guidelines, issued Thursday, recommend doctors not give new HIV medication to patients who have not been…
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The most popular medical equipment of the 21st century
The most widely used medical instruments of the first half of the 20th century are almost all from the 19th century, according to new research.Here are the top 10 most commonly used medical tools in the United States in 2016:All of these are relatively common, but are not the most popular.There are more than two…
How to buy medical equipment for the NHS
A medical device company has been fined £2.2m after admitting that it sold medical equipment to the NHS without proper approval.The UK’s Independent Medical Journal (IMJ) reported that The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had ruled that The Thermo Fisher Scientific Company breached rules by failing to register its sales to the Royal…