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SSIs in Ambulatory Surgery

In an analysis that included nearly 300,000 patients from eight states who underwent ambulatory surgery, researchers found that the rates of surgical ...read more

Hand Sanitizer Missing in Some Hospitals

Approximately 1 in 5 U.S. healthcare facilities don't make alcohol-based hand sanitizer available at every point of care, missing a critical ...read more

Infection Prevention Compliance

Infection Control Today invited infection preventionists to tell us about their experiences with boosting and maintaining compliance with infection ...read more

PPE Utilization in a Pandemic

This report explores the utilization of personal protective equipment and respiratory protection within a pandemic scenario and addresses key issues ...read more

Biocides and Sporicidal Disinfectants

This Pulse provides a quick summary of some of the ideas and perspectives coming out of the 2013 Spring Conference of the Society of Healthcare ...read more

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Warmer Temperatures Fuel Spread of Malaria Into Higher Elevations

In the tropical highlands of South America and East Africa, cool temperatures have historically kept mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, at bay. New research by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists shows that as annual temperatures rise in these areas, ...More
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Scientists Complete First Global Inventory of Flu Strains in Birds

A group of international scientists have completed the first global inventory of flu strains in birds by reviewing more than 50 published studies and genetic data, providing new insight into the drivers of viral diversity and the emergence of disease that can ultimately ...More
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Clinical Expert Addresses Group A Strep Infection in Pregnancy

Ignaz Semmelweiss made one of the most important contributions to modern medicine when he instituted hand washing in an obstetric clinic in Austria in 1847, decreasing mortality there from more than ten percent to two percent. Unfortunately, infections can still occur in ...More
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Complications Following Surgery Predict Costly Readmissions

The presence – or absence – of complications following surgery is a strong indicator of which patients are likely to be readmitted to the hospital in the 30 days following their procedure, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery. Predicting which patients ...More
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U.S. Surgeon General Addresses Preserving Antibiotics on CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog

Today, on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Acting U.S. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, reinforces the need for antibiotic stewardship programs in every hospital nationwide. His comments come as ...More
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Personalized Gene Therapy Locks Out HIV, Paving Way to Control Virus Without Antiretroviral Drugs

University of Pennsylvania researchers have successfully genetically engineered the immune cells of 12 HIV positive patients to resist infection, and decreased the viral loads of some patients taken off antiretroviral drug therapy (ADT) entirely—including one patient ...More
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Chemist Hopes New Chemical Structures Will Jumpstart Stalled Antibiotic Discovery Efforts

Chemist Timothy Wencewicz has been studying the plague of antibiotic resistance since he was a college student. The only way out, he says, is to come up with drugs that are not lookalikes of the antibiotics first discovered in the 1950s and 1960s. “I routinely call ...More
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Drug Costs Projected to Rise 3-5 Percent in 2014, Flu Vaccine Expenditures to Increase

Costs for medications are expected to rise by 3 percent to 5 percent in all healthcare settings in 2014, according to a report published online ahead of print, by the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP), the professional journal of the American ...More
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NY Health Department Issues Warning About Skin Infections From Handling Live or Raw Fish

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene announced today that it has identified an outbreak of a rare skin infection in persons who handled live or raw fish or seafood that was purchased in markets in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens ...More
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AmeriPride's Clean Green Certification Elevates Textile Services Competitiveness

AmeriPride Services has been certified Clean Green by TRSA, the leading textile services industry association. The addition of this coast-to-coast operation to the Clean Green roster accelerates “green” competition in the industry to an unprecedented level, as ...More
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