Infectious Diseases Society Of America (IDSA)

  • Research Suggests Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs are Beneficial
    Antimicrobial stewardship programs – implemented by hospitals to combat antibiotic overuse – are paying off, suggests new research. Hospitals have seen a decline in antibiotic resistance and costs, according to several studies being presented at the 49th annual meeting of ...More
    October 20, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Antibiotics Conference Addresses Lack of New Drugs to Fight Superbugs
    Leaders from government, industry, academia, medicine and science today will come together to discuss one of the most pressing health challenges we face: the rising incidence of drug-resistant bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics to fight them. The conference, "Reviving ...More
    September 22, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Leading Infectious Diseases Groups Launch IDWeek 2012
    Four of the leading infectious diseases organizations have come together to announce IDWeek 2012, their first-ever combined meeting. This new venture of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV ...More
    April 28, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDSA Offers CME Course on Lyme Disease
    It’s spring, which means tiny ticks, no bigger than poppy seeds, are looking for human hosts – just as people are getting outside more to enjoy the warmer weather. The bite of these ticks can cause Lyme disease. And Lyme disease is becoming more and more prevalent; there ...More
    April 26, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDSA Applauds President's FY 2012 Budget on Infectious Diseases Programs
    The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) says it applauds President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget, which makes needed strategic investments to strengthen key U.S. public health and research initiatives. The IDA released the following statement: "The ...More
    February 15, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Shortsighted Budget Cuts Threaten Public Health at Home and Abroad
    The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and the Center for Global Health Policy understand the need to get the nation’s fiscal house in order. But as infectious disease and HIV experts, we have seen how cuts in critical ...More
    February 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDSA Hosts Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Meeting
    The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) will host its 2011 Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Meeting Jan. 27 and 28 in Arlington, Va., during the peak of influenza season. Healthcare professionals working in the infection prevention and infectious diseases ...More
    January 10, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDSA Announces First Treatment Guidelines for MRSA
    Physicians now have help in their battle against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a potentially deadly infection that initially was limited to hospitals and healthcare facilities but has become a growing problem in healthy children and adults. The ...More
    January 5, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Experts Cite Need to Support High-Quality Research to Strengthen Evidence for Guideline Formulation
    Abdur Rahman Khan, of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at King Fahd Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and colleagues assert in the latest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases that there is an urgent need to support high ‐ quality ...More
    November 3, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Chronic Lyme Disease: How Often is it Diagnosed and Treated?
    The existence of chronic Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some healthcare workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians. Others, however, ...More
    September 2, 2010
    Posted in News
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