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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

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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

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This report explores the essentials of Clostridium difficile, one of the most problematic pathogens facing healthcare institutions today. It provides ...read more

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  • The ABCs of Hepatitis: Mayo Clinic Expert Explains Types, Prevention
    It’s Hepatitis Awareness Month. Understanding the different forms of hepatitis, who is at risk and how it can be prevented and treated can be confusing. Mayo Clinic infectious diseases expert Stacey Rizza, MD, offers the following primer: Hepatitis A: A highly contagious ...More
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    A new international study published today in The Lancet provides the clearest picture yet of the impact and most common causes of diarrheal diseases, the second leading killer of young children globally, after pneumonia. The Global Enteric Multicenter Study (GEMS) is the ...More
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  • Bacteria Research Leads to More Effective Treatment of Complex Infections
    Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed various ways to protect themselves from the ...More
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    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new tool to help bolster the food industry’s defense measures against an act of intentional food contamination. The Food Defense Plan Builder is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software program designed to help owners and ...More
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  • Healthmark Industries Announces the 2013 Decontaminator of the Year Award
    Healthmark Industries announces that Jhosue Vasquez is the winner of the 2013 Decontaminator of the Year Award. Vasquez is a CSSD technician at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He has 10 years of experience in the sterile processing field. The Decontaminator of ...More
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    Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions division announced today it has received two prestigious awards from the group purchasing organization Novation for supplier excellence. Novation named Stryker’s reprocessing division Purchased Services Supplier of the Year and presented ...More
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  • JAMA Viewpoint Examines Challenges in Providing Vaccine for Avian Influenza A(H7N9)
    The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a Viewpoint, “Major Challenges in Providing an Effective and Timely Pandemic Vaccine for Influenza A(H7N9),” by Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and colleagues. ...More
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a statement regarding the currrent novel coronavirus situation in the Middle East. ...More
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  • Following CDC Protocols Cuts Dialysis Bloodstream Infections in Half
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released results of its Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative showing a 32 percent decrease in overall bloodstream infections and a 54 percent decrease in vascular access-related bloodstream ...More
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  • Global Warming Trends Contribute to the Spread of West Nile Virus to New Regions in Europe
    Global warming trends have a significant influence on the spread of West Nile virus to new regions in Europe and neighboring countries, where the disease wasn’t present before, according to a new study by the University of Haifa. The study was commissioned by the European ...More
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