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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

Anthrax Incident Points to Safety Issues

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report today that reviews the early June incident that involved the ...read more

Tetanus Infection

The CDC offers information on tetanus infection caused by Clostridium tetani. ...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

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HAP Web Site Posts Hospital Safety Survey Results

DETROIT – The Health Alliance Plan (HAP) has posted the 2003 Leapfrog Group Hospital Quality and Safety Survey results on its Web site, www.hap.org. The information will help healthcare consumers, HAP members and employers evaluate the safety and quality practices at ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
Four Chicago-Area WNV Cases Reported

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The number of human cases of West Nile disease in Illinois this year has risen to 14 with the announcement today by the Illinois Department of Public Health of the first four reported cases of the mosquito-borne disease from the Chicago metropolitan ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
D.C. Mayor Launches Child Health Assessment and Immunization Compliance Campaign

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mayor Anthony A. Williams today announced the launch of a comprehensive community outreach campaign to encourage annual child health assessments and immunizations. This effort is designed to increase compliance with routine primary care preventive ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
Plague Warning Issued by Colorado State Health Department

DENVER -- State and local health epidemiologists last week urged Coloradans living or visiting in rural sections of the state to take precautions against rodents which may be spreading plague through their fleas. The rodents include rock and ground squirrels, prairie dogs, ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
Aventis Pasteur Issues Statement on Availability of Influenza Vaccines

SWIFTWATER, Pa. -- For the upcoming influenza season, Aventis Pasteur expects to supply more than 52 million doses of influenza vaccine to the U.S. market. This amount exceeds last year's supply by more than nine million doses and is the largest U.S. production ever by a ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
AIDS Vaccine ’04 Conference Calls for Increased Political, Financial Commitment

While survival of people living with HIV/AIDS has been extended, only a safe and effective vaccine will contain the pandemic, and the complexity of developing such a vaccine remains an enormous scientific, clinical, financial, logistical, organizational, and manufacturing ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
150-Year-Old Lessons of Physician John Snow Still Relevant Today

It was 150 years ago this September that a London physician named John Snow urged officials in his city to shut down a well-used water pump in the heart of the Soho district, a move that may have helped to hasten the end of a deadly cholera epidemic that had killed hundreds ...More
August 30, 2004 Posted in News
Complying with New Flu Guidelines May be Impractical and Costly, Research Finds

Complying with guidelines for the use of a new drug to prevent flu may be impractical and costly, according to new research published on bmj.com. National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines state that oseltamivir should be given to all vulnerable residents ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
Study of Flu Patients Reveals Virus Outsmarting Key Drug

A drug envisioned as a frontline defense for the next flu pandemic might have a genetic Achilles' heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, according to a study published this week in the British medical journal The Lancet. ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News
Chiron Delays Fluvirin Influenza Virus Vaccine Shipments; Vaccine Doses Expected to Be Available in October Pending Additional Tests

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Chiron Corporation today announced that, in conducting final internal release procedures for its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, the company's quality systems have identified a small number of lots that do not meet product sterility specifications. ...More
August 27, 2004 Posted in News