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Hygiene Specialist Excellence Award

Sharon Jones, a member of the environmental services (EVS) team at Northwest Indiana’s Methodist Hospitals, Gary Campus, has been named the ...read more

Limitations of Standard Precautions

The Standard Precautions concept in healthcare dictates that healthcare workers assess risk in advance of a patient interaction and use appropriate ...read more

Protect Yourself From Zika

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers suggestions on ways to protect yourself from Zika virus transmission. ...read more

Making the Business Case for Technology

Infection preventionists, environmental services directors, purchasing managers and members of the hospital C-suite are finding themselves at the ...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

Latest Headlines

Newly Discovered Immune Cell Type Protects Against Lung Infections During Chemotherapy

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have identified a new form of an immune cell that protected mice from life-threatening lung infections under conditions that mimic cancer chemotherapy. The research appears online today in the scientific journal ...More
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Slide Show: Protect Yourself From Zika

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers suggestions on ways to protect yourself from Zika virus transmission. ...More
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Standard Pertussis Vaccine Immunity Wanes Substantially Over Time

The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective at protecting people from the disease during the first three years after vaccination, but immunity wanes significantly over the subsequent four years, and there is little protection after seven years, ...More
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Excess Dietary Zinc Exacerbates C. diff Infection

Too much dietary zinc increases susceptibility to infection by Clostridium difficile (C. diff) according to research findings reported Sept. 26 in Nature Medicine, call into question the consumption of dietary supplements and cold therapies containing high concentrations of ...More
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Florida Health Officials Report on Response to Zika in Wynwood

Florida health officials’ response this summer to the first identified cases of local transmission and the first identified outbreak of Zika virus infection in the continental United States, including aggressive mosquito control efforts, helped to interrupt local ...More
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Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Beef Products

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), multiple state public health authorities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coliO157:H7 ...More
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NIH Funds Research Network Focused on HIV-Infected Youth

The National Institutes of Health has awarded funding for a research network devoted to the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults with HIV or at risk for HIV infection. The awards, up to $24 million in 2016, provide for three research centers and a data ...More
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Physical Activity Could Lower the Risk of Bacterial Infections

The risk of viral infections is known to be affected by physical activity, but little information is available regarding the more serious infections caused by bacteria. In this study, the investigators examined the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and ...More
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Scientists Discover How the Anthrax Toxin Forms a Deadly 'Conveyer Belt'

Researchers have built a three-dimensional map of the anthrax toxin that may explain how it efficiently transfers its lethal components into the cytoplasm of infected cells. The study, “Structure of anthrax lethal toxin prepore complex suggests a pathway for efficient ...More
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Associations Form Partnership to Address Antibiotic Use in Rapidly Growing Urgent Care Sector

The Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) and the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center (ARAC) at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University announced today that they are entering into a three-year partnership to make the urgent care ...More
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