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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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Ebola's Secret Weapon Revealed

Researchers have discovered the mechanism behind one of the Ebola virus' most dangerous attributes: its ability to disarm the adaptive immune system. University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists determined that Ebola short-circuits the immune system using ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Tick-Borne Lone Star Virus Identified Through New Super-Fast Gene Sequencing

The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever, respiratory problems and bleeding, according to new research led by scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF). ...More
3 weeks ago
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Scientists Weaken HIV Infection in Immune Cells Using Synthetic Agents

HIV is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflammation, despite drug therapy. But researchers at Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ...More
3 weeks ago
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Researchers Find Potential Novel Treatment for Influenza

An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers published in the journal Nature on May 1. The scientists found that a ...More
3 weeks ago
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Slide Show: Loaner Instrumentation

The increasing complexity of surgeries warrants the corresponding medical instrumentation, however many healthcare facilities lack the budgets to procure this instrumentation permanently. Loaner Instrumentation -- the critical and semi-critical medical devices that are used ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in Galleries, Disinfection & Sterilization
Loaner Instrumentation: Challenges, Risks and Strategies for Success

The increasing complexity of surgeries warrants the corresponding medical instrumentation, however, many healthcare facilities lack the budgets to procure this instrumentation permanently. Loaner instrumentation – the critical and semi-critical medical devices that are used ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in Digital Issues, Disinfection & Sterilization
Cell Response to New Coronavirus Unveils Possible Paths to Treatments

National Institutes of Health-supported scientists used lab-grown human lung cells to study the cells' response to infection by a novel human coronavirus (called nCoV) and compiled information about which genes are significantly disrupted in early and late stages of ...More
3 weeks ago
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Scientists Study the Many Faces of the Bacterial Defense System

Even bacteria have a kind of “immune system” they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, were now able to show that this defense system is much ...More
3 weeks ago
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AHA Launches Revamped Sustainability Roadmap Website

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched a revamped website that provides free, practical tools to help healthcare facilities reduce their environmental footprints. The Sustainability Roadmap (www.sustainabilityroadmap.org/) shows hospitals how to implement ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Early Success in Campaign to Reduce Trash and Medical Waste at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Officials at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) report a 200,000-pound decrease in the amount of trash produced each month — a 17 percent drop in just the first five months of a campaign begun in October 2012. “We began working to reduce our hospital waste by 15 percent. By ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene