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Antibiotic Therapy for Pneumonia

Approximately 1 in 4 (22.1 percent) adults prescribed an antibiotic in an outpatient setting for community-acquired pneumonia does not respond to ...read more

Reprocessing Needs Improved Quality

Several years following a widely publicized series of outbreaks related to contaminated and improperly reprocessed duodenoscopes, re-searchers are ...read more

Lyme and Other Tickborne Diseases

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and the beginning of the period through July when people will get more tick bites and tickborne diseases than any ...read more

2017 Reprocessing State of the Industry

This year's state of the industry report on sterile processing, with data provided through an online survey of ICT readers who work in sterile ...read more

Medical Device Reprocessing

This symposium will address key issues such as the dangers associated with improperly processed devices; the real-world situations that impede proper ...read more

Fecal Patina in the OR

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Hand Hygiene: A Guidebook Exploring a Key Foundation of Infection Prevention and Control

Whether it's soap-and-water handwashing or using an antiseptic hand wash, an alcohol-based handrub (ABHR), or a surgical hand antisepsis product, hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention and control practice. Despite indications that hand hygiene can help ...More
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Yearlong Survey Tracks the Microbiome of a Newly Opened Hospital

A 12-month study mapping bacterial diversity within a hospital — with a focus on the flow of microbes between patients, staff and surfaces — should help hospitals worldwide better understand how to encourage beneficial microbial interactions and decrease ...More
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Zika Virus Spread Undetected for Many Months, NIH-Supported Study Finds

Genetic analysis of samples collected as the Zika virus (ZIKV) spread throughout the Americas after its introduction in 2013 or 2014 has shown that the virus circulated undetected for up to a year in some regions before it came to the attention of public health authorities. ...More
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TSRI Scientists Find Simple Copper Complex Shuts Down Botulinum Neurotoxin Poisoning

Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans as BOTOX, a cosmetic medicine, rather than as a cause of potentially dangerous foodborne illnesses. Lesser known is that Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes the neurointoxication, produces one of the most ...More
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Machine Learning May Help in Early Identification of Severe Sepsis

A machine-learning algorithm has the capability to identify hospitalized patients at risk for severe sepsis and septic shock using data from electronic health records (EHRs), according to a study presented at the 2017 American Thoracic Society International Conference. ...More
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CDC Offers Update on Cluster of Ebola Cases in Democratic Republic of the Congo

On May 11, 2017, the Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo notified international public health agencies of a cluster of suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the Likati health zone of the province of Bas Uélé. The report ...More
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Scientists Gain Better Understanding of How Ebola Disables Immune Defenses

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists have unlocked mysteries of how the Ebola virus hampers the body's natural defenses to speed the rate of infection and its accompanying lethal disease, according to a new report in PLOS Pathogens. The study was ...More
15 hours ago Posted in News
World Health Assembly Elects Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as New WHO Director-General

Today the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) elected Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new director-general. Ghebreyesus was nominated by the government of Ethiopia, and will begin his five-year term on July 1, 2017. Prior to his election as ...More
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Molecule May Lead to First Synthetic One-Dose Antimalarial

Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), working in partnership with the University of Liverpool and other colleagues, have developed a molecule which has the potential to become the first fully synthetic, one-dose treatment for malaria. In a paper ...More
16 hours ago Posted in News
A New Strategy to Combat Influenza and Speed Recovery

The influenza virus turns infected lung cells into factories that churn out thousands of copies of the virus to spread the infection. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have reported a promising new approach that uses an investigational cancer drug to ...More
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