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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

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 ...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

Latest Headlines

Hygiene Practices Affect Contact Lens Case Contamination, Study Says

Contact lens wearers who don't follow certain hygiene habits have increased bacterial contamination of their contact lens cases, reports a study in the February issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is ...More
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Researchers Identify Protein Capable of Neutralizing Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Cells

Antibiotic-resistant infections are on the rise, foiling efforts to reduce death rates in developing countries where uncontrolled use of antibiotics and poor sanitation run amok. The epidemic of "superbugs," bacteria resistant to antibiotics, knows no borders -- presenting ...More
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Quest Diagnostics, CDC Expand Collaboration to Improve Hepatitis Diagnosis and Treatment

Quest Diagnostics announces that it will collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to identify trends in screening, diagnosis and treatment for four strains of viral hepatitis in the United States, based on insights revealed by analysis of ...More
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WHO Executive Board Appoints New Regional Director for Africa

The World Health Organization (WHO)'s executive board, currently holding its 136th session, has appointed Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti as the new regional director for WHO's Africa Region. Moeti was nominated by the health ministers of the 47 member states of the WHO ...More
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All-Woman Team Runs CDC's Ebola Testing Lab in Sierra Leone

What made the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Bo Lab Team 5 different wasn’t that it was the first and only all-woman team to run CDC’s Ebola testing lab in the heart of the Sierra Leone epidemic – it was that they set records for ...More
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Measles Outbreak Was Inevitable But Can Be Halted, UAB Physician Says

An ongoing, multistate measles outbreak linked to a California amusement park has already caused 68 confirmed cases between Jan. 1 and 23, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One University of Alabama at Birmingham pediatric infectious diseases ...More
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Misery of Measles is Avoidable Through Immunization

The recent measles outbreak linked to Disney amusement parks in southern California should not be a concern for anyone who has had measles in the past or who has received two doses of the measles vaccine. "The vaccine is very effective, so they would be protected," says Dr. ...More
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Shiga Toxin Rapid Diagnostic Assay Earns USU-HJF Third Consecutive Tech Transfer Award

A joint effort by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF) to license assays that allow for the rapid detection of Shiga toxin has received the 2015 Federal ...More
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Low Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Nursing Home Employees Put Residents at Risk, Study Finds

Influenza is associated with as many as 7,300 deaths annually in nursing home residents, but the vaccination rate for nursing home staff is only 54 percent, according to a study in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of ...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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