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Infection Control Tomorrow

Learn more about Infection Control Tomorrow, the industry's most progressive 2-day in-person event discussing traditional strategies and leading ...read more

Science Summit: Emerging Pathogens

The Science Summits provide an opportunity for manufacturers in the infection prevention and control arena to present and explain the science behind ...read more

The Volatile World of Influenza Viruses

The current global influenza situation is characterized by a number of trends that must be closely monitored. These include: an increase in the ...read more

Clostridium difficile Infections

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a ...read more

Preoperative CHG Bathing

This report addresses patient skin cleansing with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) as an effective intervention in the arsenal against surgical site ...read more

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IDSA, SHEA Urge White House to Emphasize Vaccines as a Strategy for Controlling Pandemic Flu

A strengthened effort to develop pandemic vaccines should be the primary focus of the U.S. government's national strategy for pandemic influenza, according to two leading professional societies representing infectious disease and infection control experts. Other strategies, ...More
August 8, 2006 Posted in News
Researchers Find "Secret Weapon" Used by SARS Virus

In 2003, the highly contagious and often-deadly mystery disease now called SARS emerged explosively out of Southern China. It eventually killed an estimated 916 people in Asia, Europe, and North and South America—nearly 1 in 10 of those it infected. When scientists ...More
August 8, 2006 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite

If you’re staying in a hotel room these days, you’d better check between the sheets for an uninvited guest. Infestations of bed bugs are making headlines lately, and the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) indicates that these kinds of infestations have been ...More
August 7, 2006 Posted in Blogs
New Smallpox Protein Structure Could Aid in Drug Design

The smallpox virus topoisomerase enzyme-DNA complex (DNA, yellow; topoisomerase, blue; covalent bond between the topoisomerase and the DNA, pink sphere). Image courtesy of Kay Perry, PhD; Frederic D. Bushman, PhD; Gregory D. Van Duyne, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School ...More
August 4, 2006 Posted in News
Researchers’ "Movie" Spies on Malaria Parasite's Sneaky Behavior

Malaria has been outsmarting the human immune system for centuries. Now, using real-time imaging to track malaria infections in live mice, researchers have discovered one of the parasite’s sneakiest tricks—using dead liver cells to cloak and transport itself back into the ...More
August 4, 2006 Posted in News
Coloplast Launches Education Program to Train, Empower and Develop Core Competencies for the Caregiver

ATLANTA -- After years of focus on the development of skin health best practices for acute and long-term care healthcare organizations, Coloplast has now launched an award-winning, accredited modular educational program titled “Skin: the Vital Organ.” This program is ...More
August 4, 2006 Posted in News
Meaningful Data Collection

Question: As a critical access hospital with fewer than 25 beds and an average census of 10 patients per day, our numbers are obviously much smaller than most facilities. We are attempting to determine if our infection control data should be presented on the basis of 100 or ...More
August 4, 2006 Posted in Articles
FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research Publishes Study on Distinguishing Potential Hoax Materials from Bioterror Agents

Researchers at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) NationalCenter for Toxicological Research (NCTR) are developing a quick, cost-effective way to screen for and identify bioterror agents and other substances used in hoax incidents. The testing method uses a technology ...More
August 4, 2006 Posted in News
Lysol Launches Bleach-, Color- and Fragrance-Free Food Surface Sanitizer

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 76 million cases of foodborne diseases, commonly known as food poisoning, occur in the United States every year.(i) Eighty percent of Salmonella cases alone are acquired at ...More
August 3, 2006 Posted in News
An Eye-Opening New Study of MRSA Sterile-Site Infections

I want to direct your attention to an important article in the August issue of Critical Care Medicine, in which researchers conducted a three-year retrospective study of 549 Barnes-JewishHospital patients with MRSA sterile-site infection. Their goal was to determine the ...More
August 3, 2006 Posted in Blogs