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Infection Control Tomorrow

Learn more about Infection Control Tomorrow, the industry's most progressive 2-day in-person event discussing traditional strategies and leading ...read more

Science Summit: Emerging Pathogens

The Science Summits provide an opportunity for manufacturers in the infection prevention and control arena to present and explain the science behind ...read more

Preventing CRE Infections

Researchers from the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (C-PIE) were able to reduce colonization and infection of ...read more

PPE and Ebola Preparedness

A recent increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) has caused delays for some products ordered by U.S. hospitals for Ebola ...read more

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Report Summary Hospital executives, infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists are by now familiar with a number of givens relating to ...read more

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National Nurses United Announces Donation to International Medical Corps for Ebola Response in West Africa

National Nurses United (NNU) today announced a donation of $40,000 to the disaster relief organization International Medical Corps, which is on the front lines of the Ebola response, for its continued efforts to eradicate the deadly virus in West Africa. ...More
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Leaders Mobilize Funds for Global Immunization Programs

With bold new commitments from major public and private donors during this Decade of Vaccines, the success of today’s pledging conference signals a renewed global effort to dramatically accelerate action to extend the full benefits of immunization to children and ...More
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Prompt Use of Antivirals is Key This Flu Season

A report published in the Jan. 16, 2015 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) estimates that this season’s flu vaccine reduced a person’s risk of going to the doctor because of flu by 23 percent for all ages. The MMWR report states the ...More
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UAB Wins Grant to Study Effects of Fungi on Asthma

Many persons with asthma are also allergic to common fungi and mold, and a reaction to those allergens can exacerbate asthma symptoms. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have received a $1.75 million, four-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and ...More
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Critical-Care Physician From Canada Fought Ebola From Day One

Dr. Rob Fowler, a Canadian critical-care physician, landed in Conakry, Guinea, the last week of March 2014, focused and eager to get to work. He joined his WHO colleague Dr. Tom Fletcher, an infectious diseases expert from the United Kingdom. Both had been recruited by the ...More
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Accounting for Behavioral Responses During a Flu Epidemic Using Home Television Viewing

Theory suggests that individual behavioral responses impact the spread of flu-like illnesses, but this has been difficult to empirically characterize. Social distancing is an important component of behavioral response, though analyses have been limited by a lack of ...More
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ECRI Institute Webinar Will Address Health Technology Hazards

Medical device and system dangers such as clinical alarm hazards, data integrity failures in EHRs, and IV line mix-ups put patients in harm’s way every day; many even result in death. ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches best approaches to ...More
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H3N2 Viruses Remain the Most Common Cause of Flu in the U.S.

According to this week’s FluView report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu activity is widespread in most of the country and key indicators used to measure severity are climbing sharply. H3N2 viruses remain the most common. Flu activity has ...More
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UGA Researchers Develop New Treatment for Rabies

Successfully treating rabies can be a race against the clock. Those who suffer a bite from a rabid animal have a brief window of time to seek medical help before the virus takes root in the central nervous system, at which point the disease is almost invariably fatal. Now, ...More
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Researchers Report Success in Preventing CRE Colonization and Infection

Researchers from the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (C-PIE) were able to reduce colonization and infection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase‐producing Enterobacteriaceae (KPC CRE) at four long‐term acute care hospitals using a ...More
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