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CDC Protocols Cut Dialysis Infections

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released results of its Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative showing a 32 ...read more

Antimicrobial Resistance

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and similar drugs—called antimicrobials—is considered a major public health threat by the Food and Drug ...read more

Clostridium difficile

This report explores the essentials of Clostridium difficile, one of the most problematic pathogens facing healthcare institutions today. It provides ...read more

Clostridium difficile

Infection Control Today reports on the prevalence of Clostridium difficile, including hospitals' efforts to prevent and control this ...read more

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Sharps Safety: On the Edge and to the Point

Sharps Safety: On the Edge and to the Point By Dave Wise, CSPDT, and Penny Sabrosky, BS, CSPDT Many healthcare workers (HCWs) may not be aware that the central service (CS) processing area can be a hazardous place to work. Consider this: As a CS manager, you are summoned to ...More
April 1, 2002
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization
Scoping Infectious Patients

Scoping Infectious Patients By Sara Cooper Last year, fears that improperly cleaned endoscopes may have infected hundreds of patients with HIV or hepatitis A, B or C swept through a Canadian healthcare center, drawing dozens of patients in for blood tests, according to news ...More
April 1, 2002
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization
Hep A Vaccine May Provide 30 Years of Protection

LONDON - Researchers studying the lasting effects of GlaxoSmithKline's hepatitis A vaccine Havrix say the inoculation may provide 30 years, rather than 10 years, of protection. Following 155 adults who were vaccinated with Havrix in 1990, the team followed a mathematical ...More
March 26, 2002
Posted in News
H. pylori More Common in Children, African Americans

BOGALUSA, LA - Researchers studying the ulcer causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori have found infection rates are more prevalent in African Americans and children. A team from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston examined 224 children, born in 1975-1976, living in the ...More
March 26, 2002
Posted in News
FDA recalls OB/GYN Equipment

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are alerting healthcare workers internationally of a medical device recall. Equipment manufactured by A&A, also known as A&A Medical/Rocket USA and Lifequest, of Alpharetta, Ga., is being ...More
March 18, 2002
Posted in News
Hepatitis B, Carotid Atherosclerosis Linked

NEW YORK - Japanese researchers have reportedly found a tie between chronic hepatitis B (HBV) and carotid atherosclerosis. The team's report, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, details the population-based study. Studying 4,686 men and women aged ...More
March 18, 2002
Posted in News
Texas Worker Tests Positive for Anthrax

DALLAS - Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are not releasing many details concerning the recent exposure and infection of a laboratory worker to the skin form of anthrax. The worker noticed a wound on his neck after working with the original ...More
March 18, 2002
Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Hereditary Link Determined in Pancreatic Cancer

NEW YORK - In a recent report from the International Journal of Cancer, a Canadian team of researchers has discovered a hereditary link concerning pancreatic cancer. The team from the University of Toronto researched a case-control study of 174 patients with incident ...More
March 18, 2002
Posted in News
Traveler's Disease Vaccine in Trials

GAITHERSBURG, Md - Officials at Antex Biolgics Inc., have announced they will being testing their Activax combination vaccine. Activax reportedly is designed to protect those inoculated from Campylobacter jejuni and Shigella sonnei. Campylobacter jejuni is estimated to ...More
March 18, 2002
Posted in News
Research Links Air Pollution, Lung Cancer

WASHINGTON, D.C .-Scientists from Brigham Young University and New York University have found long-term exposure to air pollution may significantly increase a person's risk of developing lung cancer. The risk may actually be as dangerous as being exposed frequently to ...More
March 6, 2002
Posted in News