Infection Control Today Magazine - healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), hospital infections, infection prevention and control, healthcare epidemiology, aseptic technique, environmental hygiene, hand hygiene, disinfection and sterilization, outbreak investigation, surveillance

FEATURES

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

Ebola Virus Disease

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the following frequently asked questions on Ebola virus disease. ...read more

Mobile Patient-Care Equipment

This report addresses the role mobile medical equipment may play in the transmission of disease-causing pathogens as well as the challenges related ...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

Study of Gut Microbes, Antibiotics: Clues to Improving Immunity in Premature Infants

Mothers give a newborn baby a gift of germs—microbes that help to kick-start the infant's immune system. But antibiotics, used to fend off infection, may paradoxically interrupt a newborn's own immune responses, leaving already-vulnerable premature babies more ...More
4 days ago Posted in News
Stanford Researchers Use Video to Better Understand Handwashing Behavior

One of the best defenses against infectious disease is one of the most simple – handwashing. Still, despite years of global public awareness campaigns, handwashing rates remain low. Caregivers of young children in low-income, developing world settings are found to ...More
5 days ago Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
WHO Invites Healthcare Facility Participation in Surveys as Part of Clean Your Hands Day

As part of the activities to support SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands Day on May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting healthcare facilities to participate in two global surveys. ...More
5 days ago Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Study Demonstrates That Antibacterial Soaps Can Reduce Risk of Foodborne Illness

Newly published research shows that the use of antibacterial soaps can reduce the spread of harmful bacteria – that often leads to foodborne illness – more effectively than using non-antibacterial soaps. The research, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of ...More
5 days ago Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
World Immunization Week is April 20-24

"Immunize for a Healthy Future: Know, Check, Protect" is the message of this year’s World Immunization Week, being celebrated April 24-30, 2014. The World Health Organization (WHO) encourages you to ask your local health clinic which vaccines you need, check ...More
1 week ago Posted in News
CDC Data Show Limited Progress in Reducing Foodborne Infections in 2013

The nation’s food safety grades are out and the results are mixed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s annual report card shows that foodborne infections continue to be an important public health problem in the United States. The rate of ...More
1 week ago Posted in News
New MRSA Superbug Emerges in Brazil

An international research team led by Cesar A. Arias, MD, PhD, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has identified a new superbug that caused a bloodstream infection in a Brazilian patient. The report appeared in the April 17 issue of The ...More
1 week ago Posted in News
Re-Emergence of Ebola Focuses Need for Global Surveillance Strategies

EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on conservation and global public health issues, has published a comprehensive review examining the current state of knowledge of the deadly Ebola and Marburg virus. The review calls for improved global surveillance ...More
1 week ago Posted in News
Researchers Discover Target for Treating Dengue Fever

Two recent papers by a University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher and colleagues may help scientists develop treatments or vaccines for Dengue fever, West Nile virus, Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and other disease-causing flaviviruses. Jeffrey S. Kieft, ...More
1 week ago Posted in News
Multi-Target TB Drug Could Treat Other Diseases, Evade Resistance

A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance, according to a study by University of Illinois chemists and collaborators. ...More
1 week ago Posted in News