Scientists at The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center found that an emphasis on compliance with non-pathogen specific infection control practices such as hand hygiene, efforts to reduce device-related infections ...
Mar 19, 2010
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A comprehensive population-based study, conducted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and presented at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, shows that expanded ...
Feb 18, 2010
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(AP) -- Swine flu infections continue to drop and only one state - Alabama - was reporting widespread cases last week.
Jan 08, 2010
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(AP) -- Health officials say winter flu is just starting to show up in the U.S. while swine flu infections continue to wane.
Dec 11, 2009
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(AP) -- Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups.
Dec 04, 2009
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(AP) -- A new government report says swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30.
Nov 30, 2009
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(AP) -- Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.
Nov 11, 2009
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An outbreak of bloodstream infections appears to have been caused by the contamination of pre-filled heparin and saline syringes made by a single company, according to a report in the October 12 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
Oct 12, 2009
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HIV prevalence among African Americans is ten times greater than the prevalence among whites. This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions ...
Oct 06, 2009
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(AP) -- The government's first study of how well rapid tests diagnose swine flu finds they're wrong at least half the time.
Aug 06, 2009
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Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous ...
Apr 15, 2009
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) fell by more than 90 percent during the past three years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania due to a multi-pronged approach combining leadership initiatives, ...
Mar 20, 2009
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Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...
Mar 10, 2009
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Infection prevention and control resources and programming in Canadian long-term care facilities fall short of recommended standards, a new Queen's University study shows.
Feb 19, 2009
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