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Bacteria in Water Supply Systems

A new analysis of 100 million Medicare records from U.S. adults aged 65 and older reveals rising healthcare costs for infections associated with ...read more

Limitations of Standard Precautions

The Standard Precautions concept in healthcare dictates that healthcare workers assess risk in advance of a patient interaction and use appropriate ...read more

Consumer Antiseptic Wash Products

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule establishing that over-the-counter (OTC) consumer antiseptic wash products containing ...read more

Making the Business Case for Technology

Infection preventionists, environmental services directors, purchasing managers and members of the hospital C-suite are finding themselves at the ...read more

Medical Device Reprocessing

This symposium will address key issues such as the dangers associated with improperly processed devices; the real-world situations that impede proper ...read more

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Kansas State University Researchers Map Links Between Salmonella and Sepsis

Research by industrial engineering and biology researchers at Kansas State University marks a significant milestone in the battle against sepsis, the second highest cause of death in intensive care units in the U.S. The study, "An Agent-Based Model of a Hepatic Inflammatory ...More
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Study Suggests Repurposed Deworming Drugs Could Combat C. difficile

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potential new weapon against Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that causes hundreds of thousands of severe intestinal infections in the U.S. every year and is frequently fatal. The researchers found that ...More
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UNC Researchers Identify How Hepatitis A Virus Causes Liver Injury

Hepatitis researchers have long thought that immune cells sent by the body to attack virus-infected cells in the liver cause the acute liver injury associated with hepatitis A virus (HAV) and other hepatitis viruses. Yet, investigators at the University of North Carolina at ...More
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Researchers Discover, Successfully Treat New Variant of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterium

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have discovered a new mutation in a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of E. coli that resists clearance by the body’s own immune system by inhibiting white blood cells that ordinarily kill and remove bacteria. In a paper ...More
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Adults Can Protect Themselves With Pneumococcal Vaccines

There are two vaccines that provide protection against pneumococcal disease. Talk to your healthcare professional to make sure you are up to date on these and other recommended vaccines. Each year in the United States, pneumococcal disease kills thousands of adults, ...More
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Slide Show: Antimicrobial Resistance

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an updated fact sheet on antimicrobial resistance, and provides the following information on the essentials of this global trend. ...More
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The Hawthorne Effect at Work

The medical field has known for almost 200 years that disinfecting hands saves lives by reducing the ability to carry disease. But even in 2016, global hand hygiene compliance remains shockingly low. At any given time, the World Health Organization (WHO) notes the presence ...More
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New Jersey Hospitals Collaborate to Save Lives in First Year of Sepsis Work

Through an innovative Sepsis Learning and Action Collaborative, hospitals across New Jersey implemented life-saving sepsis detection and care tools, resulting in nearly 400 lives saved in one year of targeted action. "Under this collaborative model, New Jersey hospitals ...More
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New Analysis Explores the Geographical Origins of Influenza

A computer model developed by scientists at the University of Chicago shows that small increases in transmission rates of the seasonal influenza A virus (H3N2) can lead to rapid evolution of new strains that spread globally through human populations. The results of this ...More
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Moving the Needle on Healthcare Quality and Costs

Bucking national trends, a new study shows that a program is making a difference in healthcare quality and cost. Developed by University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), the so-called value driven outcomes (VDO) program breaks down health procedure costs to the level of each ...More
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