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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

X-rays Reveal New Path in Battle Against Mosquito-Borne Illness

Structural biology research conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has uncovered how small insecticidal protein crystals that are naturally produced by bacteria might be tailored to combat dengue fever and the Zika ...More
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The Americas Declared Free of Measles

The Region of the Americas is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and even death. This achievement culminates a 22-year effort involving mass vaccination ...More
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First Large Clinical Trial of Flu Vaccines Designed to Prevent Heart and Lung-Related Illness Begins

Heart disease patients enrolled in a clinical trial -- designed to test whether a stronger dose of the influenza vaccine can prevent death or hospitalization due to a heart attack, heart failure, stroke or pneumonia -- have begun receiving their first flu shots in Toronto ...More
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Fungus Makes Mosquitoes Much More Likely to Become Infected With Malaria

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have identified a fungus that compromises the immune system of mosquitoes, making them more susceptible to infection with the parasite that causes malaria. Because environmental microorganisms can vary ...More
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Dialysis Organizations Team Up With CDC to Protect Patients

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is teaming up with a broad coalition of kidney and dialysis organizations to reduce the number of bloodstream infections in dialysis patients. Each year, about 37,000 people get potentially deadly bloodstream infections ...More
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Team Identifies Fungus in Humans for First Time as Key Factor in Crohn's Disease

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine-led team of international researchers has for the first time identified a fungus as a key factor in the development of Crohn’s disease. The researchers also linked a new bacterium to the previous bacteria associated ...More
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Study Finds Link Between Fecal Bacteria and Body Fat

Researchers at King’s College London have found a new link between the diversity of bacteria in the human fecal microbiome and levels of abdominal body fat. The research, published in Genome Biology, also provides further evidence of possible genetic influences on ...More
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Organizations Pushing for Zero Human Deaths from Dog-Transmitted Rabies by 2030

The World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are reiterating their call for a world free from human rabies transmitted by dogs by 2030. This year’s theme ...More
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Surprising Findings on Deadly Diarrhea Suggest Ways to Save Children's Lives

New research offers unprecedented insights into the causes of childhood diarrhea, the second-leading cause of death of children worldwide, and suggests that the role of pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and parasites has been vastly underestimated. Until now, doctors have ...More
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CDC Awards $13 Million to Establish the First Vector Control Unit in Puerto Rico

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced that it has awarded $13 million to the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust (ST&R Trust) to establish the first Vector Control Unit (VCU) in Puerto Rico, which will oversee and implement ...More
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