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Culturing of Duodenoscopes is Advised

News of patient deaths caused by outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections is fueling media attention and putting the ...read more

New Paradigm for Cleaning Efficacy

Just how efficacious are the cleaning and disinfection interventions performed in healthcare institutions? And what standard are hospitals using to ...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

Digital Summit: Healthcare Textiles

This digital summit will address proper healthcare textiles management from an infection prevention point of view, illustrate protocols for safe ...read more

Latest Headlines

ASHES and Language Solutions Launch English Competency Tool for Environmental Services Staff

CHICAGO -- The American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) and Language Solutions, LLC have made available to ASHES members “English on the Job,” a tool that helps to increase the English competency level of environmental services (ES) staff and addresses ...More
May 30, 2006 Posted in News
Knowledge of Infection May Prevent Spread of Herpes Virus

A new study suggests that the risk of transmitting the virus that causes most cases of genital herpes could be cut in half by more testing and informing sexual partners of infection. The study is published in the July 1, 2006 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, now ...More
May 30, 2006 Posted in News
World Health Organization Issues Update on Avian Influenza Infection in Indonesia

As reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed an additional six cases of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. Three of these cases were fatal. None of the newly confirmed cases is associated with the ...More
May 30, 2006 Posted in News
Two Former Olean General Hospital Nurses Recognized by APIC

Susan (Timme) Dolan, RN, MS, CIC, and Linda (Ruth) Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, former employees of Olean General Hospital, are among the 2006 Heroes of Infection Prevention named by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and Tyco ...More
May 30, 2006 Posted in News
FDA Licenses New Vaccine to Reduce Older Americans’ Risk of Shingles

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed Zostavax, a new vaccine to reduce the risk of shingles (herpes zoster) for use in people 60 years of age and older. Shingles is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After ...More
May 29, 2006 Posted in News
NIAID Study Finds Higher Dose of Flu Vaccine Improves Immune Response in the Elderly

There may be a simple way to provide elderly Americans with extra protection against the annual flu virus: give them a higher dose of seasonal flu vaccine. This idea is suggested by the results of a newly reported clinical trial supported by the National Institute of ...More
May 29, 2006 Posted in News
Plague Agent Helps Researchers Find Novel Signaling System in Cells

Dr. Kim Orth (right), assistant professor of molecular biology, led a research team that included Sohini Mukherjee (left), student research assistant in molecular biology, and Gladys Keitany, research assistant in molecular biology, in discovering a regulatory mechanism ...More
May 29, 2006 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
Research Produces Images of AIDS Virus That May Shape Vaccine

Envelope spikes on surface of HIV-1 virus. Image courtesy of Kenneth Roux As the world marks the 25th year since the first diagnosed case of AIDS, groundbreaking research by scientists at Florida State University has produced remarkable three-dimensional images of the virus ...More
May 29, 2006 Posted in News
The ABCs of Writing an Article

If you attended the annual meeting of the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (IAHCSMM) held May 22-25, 2006, you may have attended the presentation given by yours truly and my intrepid publisher, Bill Eikost. ...More
May 26, 2006 Posted in Blogs
Largest U.S. Hepatitis C Trial Yields Treatment Insights

Researchers who participated in the WIN-R trial, the largest hepatitis C study ever conducted in U.S. patients, reported key factors affecting treatment outcomes in five data presentations here at the Digestive Disease Week (DDW) annual meeting, and provided important ...More
May 26, 2006 Posted in News