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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

Prompt Use of Antivirals is Key This Flu Season

A report published in the Jan. 16, 2015 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) estimates that this season’s flu ...read more

PPE and Ebola Preparedness

A recent increase in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) has caused delays for some products ordered by U.S. hospitals for Ebola ...read more

Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring

Report Summary Hospital executives, infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists are by now familiar with a number of givens relating to ...read more

Latest Headlines

FDA Approves a Second Drug for the Prevention of Influenza A and B in Adults and Children

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the use of Relenza (zanamivir for inhalation) for prevention (prophylaxis) of influenza (flu) in adults and children 5 years of age and older. Relenza, an antiviral medication, was previously approved for the treatment ...More
March 30, 2006 Posted in News
Group Says President's Budget Proposal Cuts Critical Infectious Diseases Programs to the Bone; Infectious Diseases Experts Condemn Proposed Cuts to CDC, NIH

At a time when threats from pandemic influenza, antibiotic-resistant infections, and HIV/AIDS are growing, the budget proposal President Bush has submitted to Congress undermines the nation's ability to fight infectious diseases, the Infectious Diseases Society of America ...More
March 30, 2006 Posted in News
Enzyme Inhibitors Block Replication of SARS Virus

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a class of compounds that block the SARS virus from replicating, a finding that may open the door to new drug targets against the deadly disease. The study was conducted by researchers from Scripps Research; the ...More
March 29, 2006 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
STERIS Corp. Signs Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Censis Technologies Inc.

MENTOR, Ohio -- STERIS Corporation announces the finalization of an exclusive distribution agreement with Censis Technologies, developer of the Censitrac® Surgical Instrument Tracking and Management tool. The agreement will allow STERIS and Censis to develop a flexible ...More
March 28, 2006 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Scientists Make Key Finding in Malaria Research

Scientists at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia have made a significant discovery in the fight against malaria. Drexel researchers, along with a research group at the University of Washington, have determined a critical molecular structure of the ...More
March 28, 2006 Posted in News
Mutations and Environmental Change Make a Mild Virus Deadly

Environmental change and viral mutations have combined to fuel outbreaks of a deadly mosquito-borne disease that have plagued South and Central America for the last 100 years, a new study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Colorado State ...More
March 28, 2006 Posted in News
Nevada ICPs Designated as “Heroes” by APIC

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Theresa Lampkins, RN, CIC and Linda Feola, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, infection prevention and control practitioners (ICPs) at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals in Henderson, Nev., are among the 2006 “Heroes of Infection Prevention” named by the Association for ...More
March 27, 2006 Posted in News
It’s Time for Britain to Adopt Universal Hepatitis B Immunization, Doctors Say

It’s time for Britain to adopt universal hepatitis B immunization, say senior doctors in an editorial published online by the British Medical Journal. The United Kingdom is one of the few developed countries that have not implemented universal immunization. Instead, it ...More
March 27, 2006 Posted in News
Purdue Project Could Help Pets Serve as Disease Watchdogs

By Maggie Morris A national surveillance network that uses the medical records of companion animals could help prepare for a wide variety of emerging disease threats to humans and animals, including avian influenza, according to veterinary scientists at Purdue University's ...More
March 27, 2006 Posted in News
AIDS, TB, Malaria and Bird Flu Spread Unchecked in Burma

Government policies in Burma that restrict public health and humanitarian aid have created an environment where AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria and bird flu (H5N1) are spreading unchecked, according to a report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...More
March 27, 2006 Posted in News