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How Bleach Kills Bacteria

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have made strides in understanding exactly how bleach kills bacteria—and how ...read more

World Immunization Week is April 2024

"Immunize for a Healthy Future: Know, Check, Protect" is the message of this year’s World Immunization Week, being celebrated April 24-30, ...read more

Vectorborne Diseases

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joins the World Health Organization (WHO) and other public health partners in recognizing World ...read more

Infection Prevention and Hand Hygiene

Growing body of evidence demonstrates that patients who are more actively involved in their healthcare experience better health outcomes and incur ...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

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Aventis Pasteur Issues Statement on Availability of Influenza Vaccines

SWIFTWATER, Pa. -- For the upcoming influenza season, Aventis Pasteur expects to supply more than 52 million doses of influenza vaccine to the U.S. market. This amount exceeds last year's supply by more than nine million doses and is the largest U.S. production ever by a ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
AIDS Vaccine ’04 Conference Calls for Increased Political, Financial Commitment

While survival of people living with HIV/AIDS has been extended, only a safe and effective vaccine will contain the pandemic, and the complexity of developing such a vaccine remains an enormous scientific, clinical, financial, logistical, organizational, and manufacturing ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
150-Year-Old Lessons of Physician John Snow Still Relevant Today

It was 150 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart of the Soho district, a move that may have helped to hasten the end of a deadly cholera epidemic that had killed hundreds ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
Complying with New Flu Guidelines May be Impractical and Costly, Research Finds

Complying with guidelines for the use of a new drug to prevent flu may be impractical and costly, according to new research published on bmj.com. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines state that oseltamivir should be given to all vulnerable residents ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
Study of Flu Patients Reveals Virus Outsmarting Key Drug

A drug envisioned as a frontline defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Achilles' heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, according to a study published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet. ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
Chiron Delays Fluvirin Influenza Virus Vaccine Shipments; Vaccine Doses Expected to Be Available in October Pending Additional Tests

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Chiron Corporation today announced that, in conducting final internal release procedures for its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, the company's quality systems have identified a small number of lots that do not meet product sterility specifications. ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of Nellcor Puritan Bennet Probes Device Linked to Bacterial Infections in Texas Hospital

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Nellcor Puritan Bennett (Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt) is conducting a nationwide recall of all of its CapnoProbes, a device similar to an electronic thermometer that is used by hospitals to measure the carbon ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
HIV Patients May be Infected with More than One Type of HIV

Some HIV patients may be plagued by more than one type of HIV infection according to researchers at the McGill AIDS Centre, Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital and the McGill University Health Centre. They have shown that some patients may be susceptible to a ...More
August 26, 2004 Posted in News
Avian Influenza Update: Implications of H5N1 Infections in Pigs in China

GENEVA -- Considering the widespread nature of the current H5N1 outbreak in Asia and the capability of influenza viruses to jump the species barriers, it is likely that H5N1 virus will be detected in some pigs. Pigs can be infected with both avian and human influenza A ...More
August 26, 2004 Posted in News
Needle-free Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise in Animal Studies

Researchers have developed a powdered form of an anthrax vaccine that could potentially be inhaled through the nose and eliminate the need for needle injections. The new vaccine, which appears promising in preliminary animal studies, may offer a faster and easier way to ...More
August 26, 2004 Posted in News