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CDC Protocols Cut Dialysis Infections

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released results of its Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative showing a 32 ...read more

Antimicrobial Resistance

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and similar drugs—called antimicrobials—is considered a major public health threat by the Food and Drug ...read more

Clostridium difficile

This report explores the essentials of Clostridium difficile, one of the most problematic pathogens facing healthcare institutions today. It provides ...read more

Clostridium difficile

Infection Control Today reports on the prevalence of Clostridium difficile, including hospitals' efforts to prevent and control this ...read more

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Researchers Discover Why Old Schizophrenia Medicine Works on Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

In 2008 researchers from the University of Southern Denmark showed that the drug thioridazine, which has previously been used to treat schizophrenia, is also a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...More
4 hours ago
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Peer-Referral Programs Can Increase HIV-Testing in Emergency Departments

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that incorporating a peer-referral program for HIV testing into emergency departments can reach new groups of high-risk patients and brings more patients into the hospital for testing. Co-author and assistant ...More
4 hours ago
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New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide

New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, ...More
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New Test Better Detects Elephantiasis Worm Infection

A new diagnostic test for a worm infection that can lead to severe enlargement and deformities of the legs and genitals is far more sensitive than the currently used test, according to results of a field study in Liberia, in West Africa, where the infection is endemic. The ...More
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Targeting High-Risk Neighborhoods May Eliminate Tuberculosis

Identifying specific neighborhoods that have a high incidence of tuberculosis followed by testing and treating the residents proved to eliminate those communities’ cases of tuberculosis, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. A latent ...More
Yesterday
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Healthmark Industries Offers New CEU Game

Healthmark Industries announces the launch of its newest game on Crazy4Clean.com, “Maestra Tempa’s Temperature Challenge.” This new game takes participants on an adventure of learning the importance of temperature monitoring. Maestra Tempa will help participants choose the ...More
2 days ago
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Firms Announce Partnership for Surgical Instrument Management

Best Practice Professionals, Inc., a leading provider of oneSOURCE Document Management Service®, an electronic database that provides immediate access to manufacturers’ instructions for use (IFU) documents, has entered into a partnership with Haldor Advanced Technologies ...More
2 days ago
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Safe in Common Announces Third Online Conference to Push for Needlestick Safety

Safe in Common (SIC), the non-profit organization of healthcare safety advocates that is dedicated to eradicating needlestick- and sharps-related injuries, today opened registration for its third online conference in a series of events addressing needlestick and sharps ...More
2 days ago
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Researchers are Attacking MRSA With Metals From Antibacterial Clays

In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance. Shelley Haydel, a researcher at Arizona ...More
3 days ago
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Leading Explanations for Whooping Cough's Resurgence Don't Stand Up to Scrutiny

Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence. Some say the vaccine wears off quicker than public health officials had previously ...More
3 days ago
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