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CDC Protocols Cut Dialysis Infections

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released results of its Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative showing a 32 ...read more

Antimicrobial Resistance

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and similar drugs—called antimicrobials—is considered a major public health threat by the Food and Drug ...read more

Clostridium difficile

This report explores the essentials of Clostridium difficile, one of the most problematic pathogens facing healthcare institutions today. It provides ...read more

Clostridium difficile

Infection Control Today reports on the prevalence of Clostridium difficile, including hospitals' efforts to prevent and control this ...read more

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Researchers Sequence Genome of Periodontal Pathogen from Biofilm in Hospital Sink

A team of researchers led by scientists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has published a study outlining the recovery and genomic analysis, using single-cell genomic techniques, of a periodontal pathogen -- Porphyromonas gingivalis -- from a hospital sink. This is ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
WHO Encourages Patient Participation in Hand Hygiene

On Hand Hygiene Day, May 5, the World Health Organization (WHO) is encouraging patients and their family members to join healthcare workers in their efforts to practice good hand hygiene. Every year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
WHO Promotes the Evidence for Clean Hands

Each year, hundreds of millions of patients around the world are affected by healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Although HAI is the most frequent adverse event in healthcare, its true global burden remains unknown because of the difficulty in gathering reliable data. ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Focus on STDs, Not Cancer Prevention, to Promote HPV Vaccine Use

The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests. These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Ebola's Secret Weapon Revealed

Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind one of the Ebola virus' most dangerous attributes: its ability to disarm the adaptive immune system. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists determined that Ebola short-circuits the immune system using ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Tick-Borne Lone Star Virus Identified Through New Super-Fast Gene Sequencing

The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever, respiratory problems and bleeding, according to new research led by scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF). ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Scientists Weaken HIV Infection in Immune Cells Using Synthetic Agents

HIV is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflammation, despite drug therapy. But researchers at Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Researchers Find Potential Novel Treatment for Influenza

An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers published in the journal Nature on May 1. The scientists found that a ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Slide Show: Loaner Instrumentation

The increasing complexity of surgeries warrants the corresponding medical instrumentation, however many healthcare facilities lack the budgets to procure this instrumentation permanently. Loaner Instrumentation -- the critical and semi-critical medical devices that are used ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in Galleries, Disinfection & Sterilization
Loaner Instrumentation: Challenges, Risks and Strategies for Success

The increasing complexity of surgeries warrants the corresponding medical instrumentation, however, many healthcare facilities lack the budgets to procure this instrumentation permanently. Loaner instrumentation – the critical and semi-critical medical devices that are used ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in Digital Issues, Disinfection & Sterilization