Deaths from injuries worldwide are expected to increase 65% from 5.1 million in 1990 to 8.4 million by 2020. This projection is based on increases in population size and age, particularly in young adult men who are at the highest risk of injury related death. Injuries constitute 7.6% of all age adjusted deaths in the developed world and 10.7% in the developing world. In the Caribbean, injuries ...

Current US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) screening guidelines (CDC, 1998); (Smith, 2012a) recommend that any woman—pregnant or otherwise—with a known or suspected risk factor, such as injection drug use or HIV infection, should be tested for HCV infection (see HCV Testing and Linkage to Care); (Koneru, 2016). Screening for HCV antibody should be followed by confirmatory nucle...

I nflammation characterises all phases of atherothrombosis and provides a pathophysiological link between early lesion formation and plaque rupture leading to vessel lumen occlusion (clinical event). The inflammatory marker high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) may represent a useful tool for vascular risk assessment in apparently healthy persons (especially when lipid levels are low). Ho...

In addition to the impact of a disease itself, public reaction could be considered another outbreak to be controlled during an epidemic. Taiwan's experience with SARS in 2003 highlighted the critical role played by the media during crisis communication. After the SARS outbreak, Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC) followed the WHO outbreak communication guidelines on trust, early a...

Guidelines for managing pharmacologic interactions that can result when patients receive antiretroviral drugs for treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection together with rifamycin antibiotics for treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been published previously (1–4). Newly updated guidelines, developed by CDC in collaboration with experts from other key national and international i...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have announced a set of provisional guidelines concerning male circumcision, in which they suggest that the benefits of the surgery outweigh the risks. I offer a critique of the CDC position. Among other concerns, I suggest that the CDC relies more heavily than is warranted on studies from Sub-Saharan Africa that neither translate well to Nor...

AIM The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) facilitates national active surveillance of uncommon childhood conditions. This study assessed whether it fulfilled its objectives and satisfied criteria established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for evaluating surveillance systems. METHODS Anonymous questionnaires were sent to users of the system, individual stu...

A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/ practguide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its 2010 recommendations to help guide physicians in preventing and treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). This summary practice guideline will focus on the updates, which include yearly screening for hepatitis C viru...