September 2011
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New Hand Sanitizer Provides Extended Protection...
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TORRANCE, Calif., September 2011 – As worry over global contagions increases and is dramatized in a new block-buster movie, “Contagion,” researchers say the best long-term defense against the spread of germs is to stop them first with better hand hygiene.
Graphically depicted in the upcoming film, “Contagion,” the average person...
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February 2011
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UK Hand Hygiene Study: $4 Billion Cost →
An independent survey amongst office workers has shown that the major cause of absence from work is colds and ‘flu and a major contributor to the spread of the infection at work is poor hand hygiene….
January 2011
15 posts
NQF Maintains Endorsement of Safe Practice to... →
The National Quality Forum (NQF) announces that its board of directors has maintained endorsement of a Safe Practice that was considered under NQF’s ad hoc review process. Safe Practice 22, which…
Most Seniors Don't Get Shingles Vaccination, CDC... →
Although a vaccine to prevent shingles has been available since 2006, less than 7 percent of U.S. seniors — the demographic most frequently affected by the disease — chose to receive the vaccination…
H1N1 Pandemic Points to Vaccine Strategy for... →
Although the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic infected an estimated 60 million people and hospitalized more than 250,000 in the United States, it also brought one significant benefit—clues about how to…
Tongue Piercing: Infection More Likely With Metal... →
A stud or ring in their tongue might be an essential fashion accessory for many young adults, but piercing comes at the cost of medical risks, including infection. The material that tongue jewelry is…
HyGreen System Ensures Healthcare Workers Wash... →
About 1.7 million people contract healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) annually in the United States and germy hands may be responsible for as many as half those infections. A new hand hygiene…
AORN Announces Legislative Priorities for 2011 →
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), with a membership base of 40,000 RNs and representing the interests of 140,000 perioperative registered nurses in the U.S., has announced it…
Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program... →
An analysis of the first three years of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Control Program has documented the outcome of efforts to…
New Findings Show Vitamin D Accelerates Recovery... →
New research findings which show that vitamin D can speed up antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis (TB) have been revealed by scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The…
Hepatitis C: In 2011, a Predictive Marker for... →
Scientists at Inserm and Institut Pasteur have performed biomarker discovery on patients being treated for chronic hepatitis C infection. Their work, published in the Journal of Clinical…
Researchers Examine Outcome of Necrotizing... →
Monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis is rapidly progressive and life-threatening. Ching-Yu Lee, of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, and colleagues,…
Study Looks at Enhancing the Food Safety Culture... →
If providing safe food is a priority, why do large outbreaks of foodborne illness keep happening? Incidents like 2010’s salmonella-in-eggs outbreak sickened more than 1,900 across the U.S. and led to…
Mothers are Key to College-Age Women Receiving HPV... →
Even after young women reach adulthood, their mothers can play a key role in convincing them to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, new research suggests. A study found that college-aged…
Researchers Study Fecal Pharmacokinetics of Oral... →
Oral vancomycin (125 mg qid) is recommended as treatment of severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Higher doses (250 or 500 mg qid) are sometimes recommended for patients with very severe CDI,…
Clostridium Bacteria Infecting Increasing Numbers... →
Hospitalized children in the United States are more frequently becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print…
Alcohol-Based Wipes Shown More Effective Than Rubs... →
Alcohol-based gels and hand rubs dominate the market for hand hygiene products, but that may start to change due to a study conducted by Special Pathogens Laboratory (SPL) to determine which was more…
December 2010
100 posts
NPSF Creates First Professional Society and... →
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF), a nonprofit specializing in advancing safe patient care, is creating a groundbreaking new membership program for patient safety professionals that will…
Crothall Healthcare Selects 3M Clean-Trace for... →
Crothall Healthcare, a premier provider of support services to healthcare clients, announces its preferred partnership arrangement with 3M to kick off its enhanced approach to infection control….
Year in Review: Healthcare Worker and Patient... →
With 2010 coming to a close quickly, ICT presents the top news items and articles relating to healthcare worker and/or patient safety, ranked in order of popularity based on Web clicks by ICT…
Scientists Identify Key Interaction in Hepatitis C... →
Scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have identified a molecular interaction between a structural hepatitis C virus protein (HCV) and a protein critical to viral…
Consortium Learns from Nature to Produce New... →
Five new U.S., European and Japanese companies join A*STAR’s Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON) to engineer marine life-inspired antimicrobial surfaces for use on medical devices and other…
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….
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Year in Review: Hand Hygiene →
With 2010 coming to a close quickly, ICT presents the top news items and articles of 2010 relating to hand hygiene, ranked in order of popularity based on Web clicks by ICT readers.
Healing Wounds With Silver Preps →
Researchers have identified a better method of using silver to treat infected wounds. They report their findings in the December 2010 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy….
Medline University Free Online Clinical Education... →
Medline University (MU), Medline Industries, Inc.’s free online clinical education resource, is expanding its reach to thousands more clinicians with the release today of an application accessible…
CDC Offers Guidance on Evaluation of Environmental... →
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidance for programs to optimize the thoroughness of cleaning of high-touch surfaces. The guidance recommends a two-level program…
Cintas Announces Top 11 Infection Prevention... →
Cintas, the sponsor of Infection Prevention for Dummies and a leading supplier of microfiber and infection prevention programs, today announced the top 11 infection prevention trends for 2011. The…
Trained Rats Increased Tuberculosis Detection... →
Trained giant African rats increased positive TB detection rates by 44 percent over microscopy, the most commonly-used technique for diagnosing TB, according to a new study released in the December…
Healthmark Offers Free Continuing Education on... →
Healthmark Industries Co. offers free continuing education at Crazy4Clean.com. Become an expert of the key steps in cleaning surgical instruments and have fun at the same time. Follow and direct the…
UV-C Device Reduces Pathogens in Hospital Patient... →
Results of an eight-month hospital study, “Room Decontamination with UV Radiation,” were published in the October 2010 issue of “Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.” The study evaluated the…
Biomedical Engineer Outsmarts HIV →
It is estimated that 38 million people worldwide are currently infected with HIV and that 4.1 million more are added each year. For scientists to design treatment therapies that are effective over…
Non-Chemical Water Treatments Fail to Prevent... →
Non-chemical treatment systems are touted as environmentally conscious stand-ins for such chemicals as chlorine when it comes to cleaning the water-based air-conditioning systems found in many large…
Researchers Advise Evaluating Post-Discharge Risks... →
Rupak Datta, MPH, and Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, from the Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, encourage…
HAI Rate in Developing Countries Could be More... →
Benedetta Allegranzi MD, of the First Global Patient Safety Challenge, WHO Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues assessed the epidemiology of endemic healthcare-associated infection…
Clean Hands Equal a Healthy Body →
According to Wikipedia, handshaking was practiced as long ago as the 5th century BCE. That’s 25 centuries of passing germs around by hand. People did wash their hands in ancient times. Some religious…
Researchers Develop Non-RFID Hand Hygiene... →
Philip M. Polgreen, MD, from the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, and colleagues, have developed a method for automatically tracking the use of hand hygiene dispensers before…
Cholera Strain in Haiti Matches Bacteria from... →
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, with others from the United States and Haiti, has determined that the strain of…
Scientists Identify New Step in Activation of... →
Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a previously unrecognized step in the activation of infection-fighting white blood cells, the main immunity troops in the body’s war on bacteria, viruses and…
Study Suggests Cranberry Juice Not Effective... →
Drinking cranberry juice has been recommended to decrease the incidence of urinary tract infections, based on observational studies and a few small clinical trials. However, a new study published in…
Immune System Changes Linked to IBD Revealed →
Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have discovered some of the key molecular events in the immune system that contribute to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The…
Share Your Opinion, Win a Gift Card →
More than 1,800 infection preventionists from all walks of life have joined ICTalk, which is ICT’s online community designed to facilitate dialogue about infection prevention and control-related…
Cholera Strain Evolves New Mechanism for Causing... →
New clinical strains of cholera appear to have evolved a distinctly different mechanism to cause the same disease according to research published in the current issue of the online journal mBio®….
As Elderly Population Increases, the Toll of... →
The American Lung Association released its latest health disparity report today, “Missed Opportunities: Influenza and Pneumonia Vaccination in Older Adults,” in an effort to eliminate disparities in…
Open Surgery Reduces Infection Risk for Some... →
Deep organ space infections are expensive to treat – to the tune of $50,000. And that figure doesn’t begin to account for unrealized income (due to missed work) and other incalculable costs, like…
Near-Lethal Bout of Swine Flu Successfully Treated... →
According to the critical care experts at the Johns Hopkins Hospital who treated him, Allen Bagents, 24, of Arlington, Va., is the least likely person anyone ever expects to get sick, let alone…
CareFusion Launches Respiratory Airway Adapter to... →
CareFusion announces the launch of Verso™ 90 adapter, a component that enables uninterrupted access to a ventilated patient’s airway without having to disconnect the patient from the ventilator….
Are Depressed People Too Clean? →
In an effort to pinpoint potential triggers leading to inflammatory responses that eventually contribute to depression, researchers are taking a close look at the immune system of people living in…