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Hospital Compare Website Now Includes CLABSI Data

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announces today that its Hospital Compare website now includes central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) data reported from hospital ICUs to CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). In many places, ...More

3 hours ago

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Study Evaluates Antibiotic Option For Treating Bladder Infection in Women

Short-term use of the antibiotic cefpodoxime for the treatment of women with uncomplicated cystitis (bladder infection) did not meet criteria for noninferiority for achieving clinical cure compared with ciprofloxacin, a drug in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics for ...More

4 hours ago

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Rotavirus Vaccine Not Associated With Increased Risk of Intestinal Disorder in U.S. Infants

Although some data have suggested a possible increased risk of intussusception (when a portion of the small or large intestine slides forward into itself, like a telescope) after administration of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine in infants, an analysis that included ...More

5 hours ago

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Administration of Meningococcal Vaccine With Other Routine Infant Vaccines Appears Effective

Administration of routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that is a cause of serious disease such as sepsis and meningitis, was effective against meningococcal strains and produced minimal interference with the ...More

5 hours ago

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Treatment for Tuberculosis Can be Guided by Patients' Genetics

A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis. An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Duke University, Harvard ...More

5 hours ago

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Management of Patients with Highly Infectious Diseases is Merely Adequate, European Study Says

In emergency and medical admission departments (EDs and MADs), prompt recognition and appropriate infection control management of patients with highly infectious diseases (e.g. viral hemorrhagic fevers and SARS) are fundamental for avoiding nosocomial outbreaks. The ...More

Yesterday

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Researchers Study Use of Masks and Hand Hygiene to Prevent Flu Transmission in Households

Previous controlled studies on the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), namely the use of facemasks and intensified hand hygiene, in preventing household transmission of influenza have not produced definitive results, according to Thorsten Suess, of the ...More

Yesterday

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Researchers Examine Impact of Vaccination of HCWs on Hospital-Acquired Influenza Among Patients

In acute-care hospitals, no evidence of a protective effect of healthcare worker (HCW) vaccination on hospital-acquired influenza (HAI) in patients has been documented. Thomas Benet, of Hospices Civils de Lyon in Lyon, France, and colleagues, sought to ascertain the ...More

Yesterday

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Why Bad Immunity Genes Survive

This electron microscope image shows yellow particles of a mouse leukemia virus named Friend virus emerging or "budding" out of an infected white blood cell known as a T-cell. By allowing the Friend virus to mutate and evolve in mice, University of Utah researchers produced ...More

Yesterday

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National Quality Forum Endorses SSI and UTI Measures Developed by ACS

Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were ...More

Yesterday

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