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Dialysis Organizations Team Up With CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is teaming up with a broad coalition of kidney and dialysis organizations to reduce the number ...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

Scientists Reveal New Immunotherapy Treatment Option for C. difficile

New research being presented today at Health Protection 2010, the UK's Health Protection Agency's annual conference, will show how an alternative approach for treating and preventing Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is being developed by the agency's scientists. This ...More
September 15, 2010 Posted in News
New Research Technology to Target Human Gut Bacteria

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant to a team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory to develop a technology for studying the link between human health and disease and the microorganisms ...More
September 15, 2010 Posted in News
Physicians Practice 'Presenteeism,' Expose Colleagues to Illness

A new study demonstrates that young doctors often fail to heed the injunction, "physician, heal thyself." In a research letter published in the Sept. 15, 2010, issue of JAMA, researchers report that 3 out of 5 residents surveyed came to work in the previous year while sick, ...More
September 15, 2010 Posted in News
Outsmarting Killer Bacteria

Antibiotics can work miracles, knocking out common infections like bronchitis and tonsillitis. But according to the Center for Disease Control, each year 90,000 people in the U.S. die of drug-resistant "superbugs" — bacteria like methicillin-resistant ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News
STERIS Launches ComplyTrack Hand Hygiene Compliance Platform

STERIS Corporation announces the renaming and expansion of its hand hygiene compliance offering for healthcare providers. The new ComplyTrack Hand Hygiene Compliance Platform includes two programs; one that is already relied upon by U.S. hospitals, and a new, more automated ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
SixLog to Showcase Room Disinfection and Sterilization Technology at ASHES Meeting

SixLog Corporation, an Astro Pak company providing onsite room disinfection and sterilization services, announces it will showcase its iHP™ (ionized hydrogen peroxide) technology at the annual meeting of the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Ultraviolet Technology Could Help Prevent Salmonella-Related Illness

Last month a Salmonella outbreak caused several thousand illnesses and the recall of hundreds of millions of eggs from across the country.This latest report of a major foodborne illness outbreak demonstrates why these types of infections still cause 5,000 deaths, 325,000 ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News
Hospital Kills Harmful Bacteria Using Jan-Pro EnviroShield System

Jan-Pro International, Inc., a leader in commercial cleaning, announces that its EnviroShield Spray Disinfecting System, used to kill harmful bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), has expanded its use into hospitals. St. Joseph's Hospital, ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Bed Bugs and Business Travel: Stats Show Both are Increasing

Although summer travel season is over, there's been no hiatus from the rampant bed bug infestations overtaking hotel rooms nationwide. Moreover, business travel is predicted to increase according to a recent survey from AirPlus International. So, experts at Steritech – the ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News
High-Tech Textile Performance Confirmed, Data Presented at ICAAC

Vestagen Technical Textiles announces its inaugural participation in the 50th annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) this week, hosted by The American Society for Microbiology. Vestagen will exhibit its fluid repellant Vestex™ ...More
September 14, 2010 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions