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How Bleach Kills Bacteria

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have made strides in understanding exactly how bleach kills bacteria—and how ...read more

World Immunization Week is April 2024

"Immunize for a Healthy Future: Know, Check, Protect" is the message of this year’s World Immunization Week, being celebrated April 24-30, ...read more

Vectorborne Diseases

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joins the World Health Organization (WHO) and other public health partners in recognizing World ...read more

Infection Prevention and Hand Hygiene

Growing body of evidence demonstrates that patients who are more actively involved in their healthcare experience better health outcomes and incur ...read more

Biocides and Sporicidal Disinfectants

This Pulse provides a quick summary of some of the ideas and perspectives coming out of the 2013 Spring Conference of the Society of Healthcare ...read more

Latest Headlines

Researchers Show Common Bacteria Linked to Alzheimer's

PHILADELPHIA -- Newswise -- The paper, "Chlamydia pneumoniae induces Alzheimer-like Amyloid Plaques in Brains of BALB/c Mice," to be published in the April 2004 issue of Neurolobiology of Aging shows a link between the bacteria Chlyamydia pneumoniae and the amyloid plaques ...More
March 10, 2004 Posted in News
Tool for PDAs Helps Doctors Treat Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Newswise -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today announced its first clinical decision-support tool for personal digital assistants (PDAs) that is designed to help clinicians deliver evidence-based medicine at the point of care. AHRQ's new Pneumonia Severity ...More
March 10, 2004 Posted in News
Needlestick Risk Vanishes With NeedleZap from Health Care Logistics

CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio -- A single needle costs approximately 10 cents. Proper handling of that needle cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Just ask the estimated 600,000-plus healthcare workers injured each year by medical needles and sharps. In mere seconds, the risk and ...More
March 10, 2004 Posted in News
USP Releases First-Ever Case Study Book to Advance Medication-Error Prevention

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) today released Advancing Patient Safety in U.S. Hospitals: Basic Strategies for Success, a first-ever case study book featuring actual hospital medication errors and steps taken to prevent similar mistakes. "This unique ...More
March 10, 2004 Posted in News
Elk River Clinic in Minnesota Announces Chickenpox Vaccine Recall

ANOKA, Minn. -- The RiverWay Clinic in Elk River announced on March 3, 2004 that it is contacting approximately 1,200 patients who received immunizations with varicella (chickenpox) vaccine at the clinic between December 1998 and December 2003 to ensure that they are ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News
Vical to Receive $1 Million in NIH Grants for CMV Vaccine Development

SAN DIEGO -- Vical Incorporated announces that it has received notification of funding of approximately $1 million for research and development related to the company's plasmid DNA vaccine against cytomegalovirus (CMV) under two grants from the U.S. National Institute of ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News
Harmless Virus Associated with Longer Life for Some HIV-Positive Men

Scientists have shown that an apparently harmless virus is associated with longer life for HIV-positive men, but only when it infects them for many years. Men infected with both HIV and GB virus type C (GBV-C), previously known as hepatitis G, for at least five years were ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News
Latest Trial Results Move British Company Ahead in the Race to Develop New Oral Vaccine to Protect Against Travelers' Diarrhea

LONDON -- A clinical trial undertaken by the UK Biotechnology company Microscience at the St George's Vaccine Institute at St George's Hospital Medical School in London has demonstrated the safety and immunogenicity of their new oral vaccine which is intended to protect ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News
Common Virus May Contribute to Uncommon Bone Disease in Children

PHILADELPHIA -- A common virus may play a major role in causing a painful disease of immune cells that attacks children's bones, according to a new study. The research may eventually lead to an easier diagnosis and to more effective treatments of the disease, Langerhans ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News
Associations Respond to New Antibacterial Study

WASHINGTON - The following is a joint statement from the Soap and Detergent Association and The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association: "Antibacterial cleaning and personal care products do what they say they do: they kill harmful bacteria. Research on antibacterial ...More
March 9, 2004 Posted in News