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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

Mutation That Protects Against HIV Infection May Raise Risk of West Nile Virus Illness

People who lack a cell surface protein called CCR5 are highly resistant to infection by HIV but may be at increased risk of developing West Nile virus (WNV) illness when exposed to the mosquitoborne virus, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and ...More
January 19, 2006 Posted in News
Rubbermaid’s Bill Slezak Appointed to ASHES Board of Directors

CHICAGO -- Following the annual ASHES conference and exposition, Bill Slezak, healthcare industry manager at Rubbermaid Commercial Products, was appointed to a three year term on the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) board of directors. Slezak’s ...More
January 18, 2006 Posted in News
Spectrum Surgical Instrument Corp. Promotes Alex Vrancich to Vice President

STOW, Ohio -- President and chief executive officer of Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp., Rick Schultz, announces the promotion of Alex Vrancich to the position of vice president. Prior to the appointment, Vrancich held the position of general manager. Vrancich’s new ...More
January 17, 2006 Posted in News
Avian Flu Infections in Humans Prompt New Investigation

Robert Belshe, MD, from Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development In 1918, nearly 40 million people died in a flu pandemic. Three such pandemics have occurred during the last 100 years. When a new strain of flu infects people, the infection can spread around the ...More
January 17, 2006 Posted in News
Patients Now Surviving Once-Fatal Immune Disease

Individuals who have a rare genetic immune system disorder that prevents them from making antibodies nevertheless appear to be moderately healthy and lead productive lives, according to results of a study by investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. A report ...More
January 16, 2006 Posted in News
CDC Announces Change in Recommendations for Use of Antivirals; Clinicians Should Not Prescribe Two Common Antivirals

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that clinicians should not prescribe two common antivirals (amantadine and rimantadine) to treat or prevent influenza during the 2005-2006 influenza season. Laboratory testing by CDC on the predominant ...More
January 14, 2006 Posted in News
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt Joins Governor Sonny Perdue at Georgia Pandemic Planning Summit

WASHINGTON -- Acknowledging that pandemics happen and require a strong local response, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt signed a resolution, committing the state and federal government to planning efforts. They did so before an audience of public ...More
January 13, 2006 Posted in News
Commission Pledges Euro $80 Million to Fight Bird Flu in Third-World Countries

WASHINGTON -- At the International Pledging Conference on Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza in Beijing next week, the European Commission will pledge its external response to the threat of avian flu, including a grant of up to euro 80 million to combat the spread of the ...More
January 13, 2006 Posted in News
UCSD Team Unmasks Family of Immune System Invaders

Like a family of petty criminals gone wrong, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) were surprised to find that bacterial pathogens found in a number of troublesome diseases are actually related. Not only that, their wrong-doing is carried out by ...More
January 13, 2006 Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions
StatLock Efficacy Documented in New Study

Due to improper information supplied to Infection Control Today, a previous version of this news item incorrectly cited the name of the organization responsible for the new Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice. That organization is the Infusion Nurses Society. It should ...More
January 12, 2006 Posted in News