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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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FDA Approves Hepatitis C Drug

WASHINGTON, DC-Officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a Shering-plough Corporation hepatitis C drug could be packaged and marketed alone for the first time. Patients in need of ribavirin have previously had to purchase Shering's Rebetron kit, ...More
July 27, 2001
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Australian Nurses Worried About Hospital Violence, Security

SYDNEY, Australia--Healthcare workers in Australia are voicing their concerns about security within their hospitals. Their major complain stems from lack of police response in emergency situations. At the NSW Nurses Association Conference in Sydney, the director general of ...More
July 23, 2001
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Rare Infectious Mosquitoes Found in Phoenix Suburb

TEMPE, Ariz-Heat-exhausted children, tall saguaro cacti, and teal blue pools decorate homes between Southern and Rural roads in Tempe, Arizona. But what researchers found lurking in the cool shadows may send children inside for the rest of summer to prevent being infected ...More
July 20, 2001
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Staph Continues Path of Most Resistance

WASHINGTON, DC-There are new reports that healthcare workers' arch enemy, bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, has just defeated the latest kryptonite thrown it's way. Staph is now resistant to the latest antibiotic introduced just one-year ago. A new study from Harvard Medical ...More
July 20, 2001
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Researchers Recommend Hepatitis C Treatment for Drug Users

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-Seven researchers from the University of California at San Francisco, along with a variety of international physicians and researchers specializing in AIDS, liver disease, substance abuse, and health policy, have written an article urging the treatment ...More
July 19, 2001
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AIDS Patients Frequently Troubled by Fat Malabsorption

WESTPORT, Conn-A new study is urging physicians to pay more attention to AIDS patients who suffer from diarrhea. Chances are, they are suffering from fat malabsorption caused by their highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and other drugs to treat AIDS. A group of ...More
July 19, 2001
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Omeprazole, Antibiotics Eradicate Helicobacter pylori

WESTPORT, Conn-A new report from the Une issu e of the European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology shows a comnination of antibiotics and omeprazole is more effective than ranitidine in eliminating Heliocbater pylori within duodenal ulcers. While most physicians ...More
July 19, 2001
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Scientists Look for Jobs Abroad To Avoid Bush `Brain Drain'

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-Officials at the University of California, San Francisco recently learned they will be losing one scientist to Cambridge, with many other researchers looking for jobs abroad as well. It isn't a new culture that is sending some of the more prominent ...More
July 18, 2001
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Israeli Scientist Discovers Mad Cow Marker in Urine

JERUSALEM, Israel-Ruth Gabizon, MD, has reportedly discovered a marker that others have been hunting for more than 20 years. The Israeli scientist, from Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, has found a protein molecule in the urine of people and animals infected with ...More
July 18, 2001
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San Francisco Health Officials Try New Approach at Preventing STDs

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif-The city of San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, great sour dough bread, and a prominent homosexual community, among other things. Health officials hoping a new campaign will prevent "a hot bed for sexually transmitted diseases" from ...More
July 18, 2001
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