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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

Cleaning the OR

Experts are pushing for a surgical conscience in the operating room that also encompasses a heightened awareness of intraoperative transmission of ...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

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Dignity Health Saves $30 Million on Reductions in HAIs and Readmissions

Dignity Health, one of the five largest hospital systems in the nation, announces that in two years it has reduced hospital-acquired infections and readmissions, positively affecting more than 10,000 patients and potentially saving an estimated $30 million, as a result of ...More
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Kimberly-Clark Recognizes Infection Prevention Champions in Fourth Annual HAI Watchdog Awards

Kimberly-Clark Health Care today announced the recipients of the fourth annual HAI WATCHDOG Awards, recognizing the efforts of dedicated healthcare facilities for their work to reduce and prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) through staff and patient education ...More
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REDUCE MRSA Trial Awarded 2014 Distinguished Clinical Research Award by Clinical Research Forum

The Clinical Research Forum has selected the REDUCE MRSA trial as one of the winners of its third annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards. The winning projects represent the outstanding examples of research projects that benefit the health and wellbeing of the ...More
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New SHEA Epi Project Winner to Examine Best Practices in HAI Surveillance

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) has announced Jason Lempp, MPH, CIC, as the winner of the third annual EPI Project Competition. Lempp was honored with the early investigator award for his project looking to determine if the Washington State ...More
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Researchers Find That Influenza Has an Achilles' Heel

Flu epidemics cause up to half a million deaths worldwide each year, and emerging strains continually threaten to spread to humans and cause even deadlier pandemics. A study by McGill University professor Maziar Divangahi published by Cell Press on April 10 in the journal ...More
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Researchers Discover How the Epstein Barr Virus Hijacks Human Cells

University of Montreal researchers have discovered how a component of the Epstein Barr (EBV) virus takes over our cells gene regulating machinery, allowing the virus to replicate itself. The EBV virus causes a variety of diseases such as Hodgkin’s lymphoma and ...More
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Five Cases of MERS-CoV are Reported to WHO

The Ministries of Health of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently announced additional laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). The four additional laboratory-confirmed cases reported to ...More
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Study Says Reusable Protective Eyewear Can Increase Infection Risk

TIDI Products, LLC, a leading manufacturer of single-use infection-prevention products for medical and dental markets, announces today the publication of a scientific paper in American Journal of Infection Control. The report, “Eyewear contamination levels in the ...More
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Vestagen Advocates for HCWs to 'Keep the Coat' as a First Line of Defense Against Contaminants

To draw attention to the role healthcare worker attire can play in transmitting pathogens, Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc. has launched a “Keep the Coat” awareness campaign. The effort intends to bring understanding that, with new technological ...More
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UMF Corporation Continues Expansion of PerfectCLEAN Infection Prevention Network

UMF Corporation announces that Mohawk Hospital Linen Services of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, (a division of Mohawk Shared Services) has joined its PerfectCLEAN® Infection Prevention Network (PC/Network) of recognized leaders specializing in processing linens and textiles ...More
1 week ago Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene