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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

Latest Headlines

Vaccine Prevents Deadly Pneumonia in African Children, New Clinical Trial Confirms

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Global health leaders today presented new research showing that vaccinating infants against Streptococcus pneumoniae -- a bacterium that causes deadly pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis – could substantially reduce death and serious illness among children ...More
March 25, 2005 Posted in News
Child Care May Affect Entire Community's Risks of Infection

Any parent knows how quickly a cold or a cough can spread between children who play together. However, child care may also affect an entire community's carriage of potentially dangerous bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae, according to an article in the April 1, 2005 ...More
March 24, 2005 Posted in News
Florida Department of Health Investigates Infections

TALLAHASSEE— The Florida Department of Health (DOH) is working closely with local county health departments, infectious disease experts and local hospitals to investigate recently reported cases of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) in children. “We assure all Floridians ...More
March 24, 2005 Posted in News
NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine

Fast-track recruitment has begun for a trial to investigate the safety of a vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today. Sites in Rochester, N.Y., ...More
March 23, 2005 Posted in News
Scientists Shed Light on Natural Killer T Cells Role in Fighting Disease; Research Could Lead to New Treatments for Bacterial Infections and Tumors

SAN DIEGO -- Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) have identified the bacteria Sphingomonas as containing a glycolipid which naturally triggers an immune response from the body's natural killer (NK) T cells. The finding sheds some light ...More
March 23, 2005 Posted in News
Hemispherx Biopharma Expands Alferon LDO -R- As Potential New Therapy for Avian Influenza

PHILADELPHIA -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. continues the evaluation of Alferon LDO (Low Dose Oral Interferon Alfa-n3 (Human Leukocyte Derived)) as a potential therapy for avian flu. The anticipated clinical trials in human volunteers (to be conducted in both the U.S. and ...More
March 23, 2005 Posted in News
CytRx Announces Phase I HIV Vaccine Clinical Trial Enrollment Completion

LOS ANGELES -- CytRx Corporation, Advanced BioScience Laboratories (ABL) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) today announced the completion of enrollment of healthy volunteers in a three-arm Phase 1 clinical trial for a novel HIV DNA vaccine. The ...More
March 22, 2005 Posted in News
The Merck Company Foundation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Announce the Creation of the Maurice R. Hilleman Chair in Vaccinology

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. and PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in collaboration with The Merck Company Foundation, today announced the creation of The ...More
March 22, 2005 Posted in News
Mandatory Reporting Consensus Conference Webcast Now Live

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Archived proceedings from the recent consensus conference on mandatory reporting of healthcare-associated infections are now accessible via a live Webcast feature at www.apic.org and include a real-time online polling feature so that visitors may vote on ...More
March 22, 2005 Posted in News
Virginia Department of Health Commemorates World Tuberculosis Day 2005

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) is recognizing March 24 as World Tuberculosis (TB) Day by actively promoting TB awareness through continuing education programs for medical providers and the general public. World TB Day honors the date in 1882 when ...More
March 22, 2005 Posted in News