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Dialysis Organizations Team Up With CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is teaming up with a broad coalition of kidney and dialysis organizations to reduce the number ...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

Protect Yourself From Zika

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers suggestions on ways to protect yourself from Zika virus transmission. ...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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Deb Group Offers Tips to Limit Absenteeism, Boost Handwashing This School Year

As millions of students have headed back to school, chances are just as many germs will be tagging along as well. Research from Johns Hopkins University suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year. To help keep faculty and students healthy ...More
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SCA and WSSCC Issue Joint Global Report on Hygiene Matters

As part of its ongoing support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, leading global hygiene and forest products company SCA, in partnership with the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), a United Nations entity devoted solely to the ...More
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AAAHC Launches Industry-First Quality Improvement DIY Resource

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announces it has released its first-ever Illuminating Quality Improvement toolkit, a robust bundle of behind-the-scenes resources previously available only through in-person courses. The comprehensive kit ...More
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Hospira Launches LifeShield Supercath 5 Safety IV Catheter

Hospira, a Pfizer company and a leading provider of infusion technologies, today announced the launch of the new LifeShield® Supercath® 5 safety I.V. catheter in the United States. The new Supercath 5 debuted at the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) annual ...More
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HHS Forges Partnerships to Develop New Antibiotics

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) today announced two strategic partnerships with The Medicines Company headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., and Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. (Roche), part of ...More
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Ancient Remedy Becomes Novel Approach to Treating Clostridium difficile Infection

Modern medicine is taking a new look at an ancient remedy for severe diarrhea as a novel approach to treat a serious gastrointestinal infection. Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a common bacterium that can take advantage of an imbalance of intestinal microbiota, most ...More
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Researchers Identify Protein Critical in Causing Chronic UTIs

E. coli bacteria. Courtesy of Scott Hultgren and John Heuser Researchers have identified a potential way to prevent chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs). Their research points to a key protein that bacteria use to latch onto the bladder and cause UTIs, according to ...More
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MRSA May Be Spreading Through Contaminated Poultry

A new study offers compelling evidence that a novel form of the dangerous superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can spread to humans through consumption or handling of contaminated poultry. The research, published online today in the journal Clinical ...More
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Speedy Bacteria Detector Could Help Prevent Foodborne Illnesses

It seems like almost every week another food product is being recalled because of contamination. One of the more common culprits is a pathogenic strain of E. coli. To help prevent illnesses caused by this bacteria in food or water, researchers have developed a new ...More
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Computational Method Identifies Existing Drugs With Virus-Fighting Potential

A new, computer-based screening method could reveal the virus-fighting potential of drugs originally developed to treat other conditions, reports a study in PLOS Computational Biology. ...More
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