Expired CME Article

Importance of Hepatitis Vaccination in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease

Acute hepatitis A or B infection can be lethal in patients with chronic liver disease. Safe and effective vaccines are currently available to prevent hepatitis A and B. Despite wide availability of vaccines, most patients with chronic liver disease are not immunized, in part due to nonuniform and inconsistent current…

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Case Report

A Report of Iliac Muscle Abscess Due to Mycobacterium bovis After Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Therapy for Bladder Cancer

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is traditionally used for vaccination against tuberculosis. BCG vaccine contains live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis. Intravesical BCG is also effective in treatment of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Complications after intravesical BCG immunotherapy are extremely rare. We report an iliac muscle abscess due…

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Original Article

Follow-up Study of Medication Errors Reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

Background: A study was done to determine if the apparent medication errors found in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database are true errors, and if true errors are found, to determine what corrective action was taken. Furthermore, if a true error did not occur, we wanted to determine…

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