Epidemiology

Surveillance System Targets Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots

A team of researchers have developed a method to identify the cause of infectious disease outbreaks based on online reports about the symptoms, the season, and the ratio of cases to fatalities. Using data from the Internet outbreak reporting system ProMED-mail, the ...More
February 8, 2013
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Researchers Use Game to Change How Scientists Study Disease Outbreaks

It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population. An international team of scientists--including researchers who teach an annual clinic at the African ...More
April 6, 2012
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Penn Epidemiological Study Takes Snapshot of Long Term Chagas Disease Outbreak

Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms--some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics. Michael Levy, PhD, assistant professor of Biostatistics and ...More
September 27, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Think Locally When Treating Individually for Communicable Diseases

By taking local biosurveillance data into account when assessing patients for communicable diseases, doctors may be able to make better diagnostic decisions, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. For instance, in the case of strep throat, awareness of ...More
September 20, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Investigators Show That the Epidemiology of CDI is Changing

Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of nosocomial infectious diarrhea in the United States. However, recent reports have documented that C. difficile infections (CDIs) are occurring among patients without traditional risk factors. Jennifer L Kuntz, of the Center ...More
July 19, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
SHEA to Hold Annual Infection Control and Epidemiology Course in July

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) announces that its 15th annual Fellows Course in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology will be held July 6-8, 2011 at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. The faculty includes course directors from: John ...More
March 14, 2011
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SHEA/CDC Healthcare Epidemiology Course to be Held in April

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)/CDC Course in Healthcare Epidemiology will be held May 14-17, 2011 at the Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. The course provides training for infectious diseases fellows, healthcare ...More
January 20, 2011
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Electronic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining Can Yield Rich Results for Infection Prevention

Even in the age of public reporting, there still exists a chasm between the healthcare institutions that use electronic surveillance systems (ESSs) in their infection prevention and control programs and those that do not. And according to experts, there is little known ...More
January 17, 2011
Posted in Articles
Outbreak Detection, Control and Response is Among New Health Promotion Strategy

The National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council has released a draft National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy for public comment. The National Prevention Strategy will include actions that address prevention and promote healthy development and ...More
January 17, 2011
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Year in Review: Surveillance and Epidemiology

With 2010 coming to a close quickly, ICT presents the top news items and articles of 2010 relating to surveillance and epidemiology, ranked in order of popularity based on Web clicks by ICT readers. 1. Electronic Surveillance is Key to HAI Investigation 2. Study of ...More
December 21, 2010
Posted in News