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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

3-D Structure of Anthrax Toxin Complex Solved

LA JOLLA -- Scientists have determined a three-dimensional (3-D) molecular image of how anthrax toxin enters human cells, giving scientists more potential targets for blocking the toxin, the lethal part of anthrax bacteria. The finding also points to a possible way to ...More
July 6, 2004 Posted in News
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Takes Steps to Expand Market Potential for StaphVAX Beyond ESRD Patient Population

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Nabi Biopharmaceuticals announces that it has initiated the first in a series of additional clinical studies for StaphVAX (Staphylococcus aureus Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine), its investigational vaccine designed to prevent the most prevalent strains ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Investigation into China's Recent SARS Outbreak Yields Important Lessons for Global Public Health

BEIJING and MANILA, Philippines -- It has been more than two months since the Ministry of Health of China notified WHO and the world about an outbreak of SARS in Beijing and Anhui Province. Since then, WHO experts have been supporting the Chinese authorities in their ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
BD Announces Settlement of Pending Lawsuit

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced that the company has entered into an agreement July 1, 2004 to settle the lawsuit filed against it by Retractable Technologies, Inc. (RTI) in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas in ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Multivitamins During Pregnancy and After Birth Delay Progression of HIV In Women

Multivitamin supplements containing high doses of the vitamin B complex, as well as vitamins C and E, given to HIV-infected women during pregnancy and for more than five years after they gave birth reduced the symptoms of AIDS, according to a study of Tanzanian women ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Stress Affects Immunity in Ways Related to Stress Type and Duration

Psychologists have long known that stress affects our ability to fight infection, but a major new “meta-analysis” – a study of studies – has elucidated intriguing patterns of how stress affects human immunity, strengthening it in the short term but wearing it down over ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Parental Supervision May Reduce the Risk for STDs in Adolescents

African-American female adolescents who reported that they had high levels of parental supervision had reduced incidence of gonorrhea and chlamydia infections than their peers who reported low parental supervision, according to an article in the July 2004 issue of The ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Severe Sepsis Causes Almost 10 Percent of Cancer Deaths

Severe sepsis is a costly complication in hospitalized cancer patients causing around one in ten cancer deaths each year in the United States, according to an article published today in Critical Care. The excessive response to infection in patients with severe sepsis ...More
July 5, 2004 Posted in News
Quidel’s QuickVue® Influenza A+B Test Now Available in the United States

SAN DIEGO -- Quidel Corporation today announced that its new QuickVue Influenza test A+B has become available in the United States. The new, CLIA-waived QuickVue Influenza A+B test provides information to aid in the differential diagnosis of acute influenza type A or ...More
July 1, 2004 Posted in News
CHESP Exam Price to be Increased in 2005

Effective Jan. 1, 2005, the AHA Certification Center will be increasing fees for CHESP examinations. Fees increase to $275 for members of the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) (or other Professional Membership Group, PMG) membership and $345 for ...More
July 1, 2004 Posted in News