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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

Antimicrobial Resistance

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

Clostridium difficile

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

Clostridium difficile

Infection Control Today reports on the prevalence of Clostridium difficile, including hospitals' efforts to prevent and control this ...read more

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Using Bacteria to Stop Malaria

Mosquitoes are deadly efficient disease transmitters. Research conducted at Michigan State University, however, demonstrates that they also can be equally adept in curing diseases such as malaria. A study in the current issue of Science shows that the transmission of ...More
2 weeks ago
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GOJO Announces Launch of SMARTLINK Hand Hygiene Solutions

GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, is assisting Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC) in measuring and improving hand hygiene compliance through its SMARTLINK Activity Monitoring System. TSRHC is on ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Cascades Antibacterial Towel Wins Edison Award Gold Medal

Cascades Tissue Group, North America’s fourth largest producer of towel and tissue paper, announces that its Cascades Antibacterial paper towel has received Gold honors in the Edison Awards Consumer Packaged Goods: Cleaning Solutions category. The award – the highest ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness is Everybody's Responsibility

Today on the CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, discusses the urgent need to preserve antibiotics. He highlights the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance and likens antibiotics to a ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Slide Show: Antimicrobial Resistance

The resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and similar drugs—called antimicrobials—is considered a major public health threat by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its counterparts around the world. Antibiotics have transformed healthcare since they were introduced ...More
3 weeks ago
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Research Could Help Battle Bacterial Infections That Do Not Respond to Powerful Drugs

Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that they organize in a rich-get-richer pattern similar to many economies, according to a new study by researchers at UCLA, Northwestern University and ...More
3 weeks ago
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Variations in Antibiotic Prescribing of Acute Rhinosinusitis in Ambulatory Settings

Antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis (ARS) are prescribed frequently— especially for younger adult patients and in primary care settings—despite recent consensus guidelines that discourage antibiotic use in mild cases, according to a study in the May 2013 issue of ...More
3 weeks ago
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Immune Cells That Suppress Genital Herpes Infections Identified

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington scientists have identified a class of immune cells that reside long-term in the genital skin and mucosa and are believed to be responsible for suppressing recurring outbreaks of genital herpes. These immune ...More
3 weeks ago
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Maternal Influenza May be Risk Factor for Bipolar Disorder In Adult Offspring

A study by Raveen Parboosing, MBChB, MMed, MS., of Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa, and colleagues suggests that maternal influenza during pregnancy may be a risk factor for bipolar disorder in their offspring. The study, which used a birth cohort from ...More
3 weeks ago
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New Malaria Tool Shows Which Kids at Greatest Risk

Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a test that can determine which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria, a much more life-threatening form of the disease. The screening tool could be a game-changer in resource-limited rural ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News