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Link Between Antibiotics and Biofilms

Researchers from USC and the Oak Crest Institute of Science have discovered the link between antibiotics and bacterial biofilm formation leading to ...read more

Fist Bump Beats Handshake

“Fist bumping” transmits significantly fewer bacteria than either handshaking or high-fiving, while still addressing the cultural ...read more

National Immunization Awareness Month

Each year in August, National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) provides an opportunity to highlight the value of immunization across the lifespan. ...read more

Healthcare Reform

Infection prevention's role in quality improvement initiatives is becoming more of an imperative within the overall efforts by healthcare ...read more

Latest Headlines

Boehringer Ingelheim Announces 24-Week Interim Results from Second Phase III Pivotal Study of Tipranavir

GLASGOW, Scotland -- New data from a pivotal Phase III study (RESIST-2) show that a statistically significant greater percentage of HIV-positive patients taking a tipranavir-based regimen achieved a treatment response versus those taking a regimen containing one of several ...More
November 18, 2004 Posted in News
Cold and Flu Season Gets Underway With Flu Vaccine in Short Supply

NEW YORK -- It is cold and flu season and with 45 million less flu shots available health officials are expecting more people to get the flu this year. It is estimated that up to 20 percent of the American population will suffer with flu symptoms and more than 200,000 ...More
November 18, 2004 Posted in News
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Announces Altastaph(TM) Phase II Trial Results in Neonates

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals today Phase II clinical trial results for Altastaph(TM) [Staphylococcus aureus Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human)]. This Phase II trial was conducted in premature, low birth-weight babies (neonates). Altastaph is the company's ...More
November 18, 2004 Posted in News
Positive Outcome of Phase I DNA Influenza Study

OXFORD, England -- PowderMed Ltd. (PowderMed), a company focusing on the development of therapeutic DNA vaccines, has announced positive results in a Phase I clinical trial of a proprietary prophylactic DNA influenza vaccine. The trial examined three doses of the DNA ...More
November 18, 2004 Posted in News
African Children with HIV Would Benefit from Daily Doses of Cheap Antibiotic

Results of a randomized trial in this week’s issue of The Lancet highlight how the low-cost antibiotic co-trimoxazole should be given to all children with HIV in developing countries to help reduce illness and death from opportunistic infections such as pneumonia. The trial ...More
November 18, 2004 Posted in News
Flu Arrives in Oregon

PORTLAND -- Oregon's first laboratory-confirmed influenza case for the current flu season has been reported by Providence Portland Medical Center, according to public health officials at the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS). It occurred in a 28-year-old man. "The ...More
November 17, 2004 Posted in News
Hantavirus Fatality Confirmed in New Mexico Woman

SANTA FE -- A fatal case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome has been confirmed in an adult woman from McKinley County. The case was confirmed by testing done at the University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center and TriCore Reference Laboratories. An environmental ...More
November 17, 2004 Posted in News
Legislature Passes Joint Resolution to Finance and Construct New State Laboratory to Detect and Identify Emerging Infections, Terrorism-Related Threat

TRENTON -- The New Jersey Legislature has passed a joint resolution authorizing the financing and construction by the New Jersey Building Authority of a new $139 million Public Health, Environmental, and Agricultural Laboratory for use by the New Jersey Department of Health ...More
November 17, 2004 Posted in News
Computer Models to Simulate Hypothetical Outbreak of Avian Flu

A group of scientists who are developing computer models to combat infectious diseases have focused their attention on the H5N1 strain of the bird influenza virus. By simulating the outbreak of this potentially deadly avian flu in a hypothetical human community, the ...More
November 17, 2004 Posted in News
Ground-Level Ozone Linked to Increased Mortality

Changes in ground-level ozone were significantly associated with an increase in deaths in many U.S. cities, according to a nationwide study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Yale University School of Forestry and ...More
November 17, 2004 Posted in News