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Bacteria in Water Supply Systems

A new analysis of 100 million Medicare records from U.S. adults aged 65 and older reveals rising healthcare costs for infections associated with ...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

Consumer Antiseptic Wash Products

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule establishing that over-the-counter (OTC) consumer antiseptic wash products containing ...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

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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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Clorox Healthcare Introduces the Next Generation of Bleach

Clorox® bleach has played an important role in public health for more than a century. Today, at the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) EXCHANGE 2016 annual conference, Clorox Healthcare announces its breakthrough innovation in healthcare disinfection with ...More
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Sharon Jones Wins National 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 2015 recipient of the Hygiene Specialist® Excellence award sponsored by UMF Corporation, a Chicago-based developer of ...More
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Vizient, Inc. Announces Finalists for Its Annual Innovation Challenge

Vizient, Inc. announces the finalists for its fourth annual Innovation Challenge, an event designed to illuminate some of the best new ideas in healthcare today. The five companies were chosen from a pool of almost 60 submissions spanning 17 states and four countries. Areas ...More
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Deb Group Offers Tips to Limit Absenteeism, Boost Handwashing This School Year

As millions of students have headed back to school, chances are just as many germs will be tagging along as well. Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year. To help keep faculty and students healthy ...More
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