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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

Latest Headlines

Regeneration Technologies' Patented Process Named in Medical Journal as Solution to Tissue Sterilization

ALACHUA, Fla. -- Regeneration Technologies, Inc., the Florida-based processor of orthopedic, cardiovascular and other allograft implants, announced today that it has passed the half-million mark in distributing implants sterilized through its patented BioCleanse ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Simple Measures Can Eradicate MRSA

“Ring fencing” of hospital wards and simple infection control measures can eradicate MRSA in patients having planned operations and allow more patients to be treated, show researchers in the recent issue of British Medical Journal. Their study involved all patients ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
Nation's Infectious Disease Experts Issue Comprehensive Report Stressing the Need to Improve Dangerously Low Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Healthcare Workers

BETHESDA, Md. -- The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) has issued a comprehensive report stressing the importance of annual influenza vaccination among healthcare workers and urges health care institutions to help facilitate annual employee influenza ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
11th Annual International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections will be held Oct. 24-27, 2004

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The 11th Annual International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ISSSI) will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center in Charleston, S.C. Oct. 24-27, 2004, uniting the world's most respected scientists and clinicians as ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
Pivotal Clinical Trial Begins for Procleix West Nile Virus Blood Screening Assay; Ongoing Screening Already Has Intercepted 20 WNV-Infected Blood Donations

SAN DIEGO and EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Gen-Probe and Chiron announced today that the pivotal clinical trial of the companies' Procleix West Nile virus (WNV) blood screening assay has been initiated. The companies also noted that since the start of this ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
Pennsylvania Agriculture Department Announces Positive Test in Salmonella Investigation

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced that the state Department of Agriculture has confirmed a positive test for salmonella in Roma tomatoes distributed by Coronet Foods of West Virginia. "This morning, the ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
The Kimberly-Clark Knowledge Network Offers Course on Implementation of JCAHO’s Universal Protocol

ROSWELL, Ga. -- Increasing patient safety by identifying the causes of errors during surgery is the outcome that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) expects through the proper implementation of its “Universal Protocol for ...More
July 19, 2004 Posted in News
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Allowing HIV-infected Individuals to Donate Organs

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois became the first state in the country to allow organ donations by people who are HIV positive today when Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich signed House Bill 3857. The new law, sponsored by state Rep. Larry McKeon (D-Chicago), allows the organs of an ...More
July 16, 2004 Posted in News
FDA Issues Alert on Foodborne Illness Outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic States

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing an alert to consumers that 57 cases of salmonellosis may be associated with food purchased at deli counters contained in Sheetz Gas Station locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia July 2-9, 2004. ...More
July 16, 2004 Posted in News
International Travelers at Risk for Typhoid Fever

Unvaccinated travelers who make even short-term visits to countries where typhoid fever is endemic are at risk of contracting the disease, according to an article in the July 15, 2004 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Salmonella Typhi is the typhoid fever-causing ...More
July 16, 2004 Posted in News