Showing posts with label Infection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Infection. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011

Be your special needs child's advocate during air travel | Best Family Travel Advice

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In today’s world of poor customer service and inconsistent policies, self-sufficient travel is the best. It may sound harsh, but nobody els...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Hand sanitizers: don't kill MRSA or E. coli, says FDA - Health Key

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Hey, hand sanitizers. You can only do so much – and preventing MRSA infection isn’t one of those things -- so stop over-promising! That was...

Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? - Dr. Weil

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Q Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? What's this I hear that allowing pets to sleep on your bed puts you at risk ...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Big Pharma backs deal to boost flu pandemic readiness | Reuters

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Virus samples will be shared globally in exchange for vaccines produced from them under a landmark deal to improve preparedness for a flu p...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Hospital scrubs and sandwiches should not mix | Reporting on Health

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You probably have been to a restaurant near a hospital (or a café inside a hospital) and seen a doctor, nurse or medical assis...
Friday, April 1, 2011

MRSA Protocols- Are They Being Used In Practice? | Registered Nurse Blog

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Posted: April 2nd, 2011 In Advance For NPs and PAs, a March 9, 2011 article was featured on the following study of protocols used ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How Vacuuming, Using a Sponge, and Other Daily Habits Can Make You Sick

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They say that home is where the heart is. But what you may not know is that it's also where 65% of colds and more than half of food-bor...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Education Resources, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc APIC |

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APIC works to provide information to both the general public and healthcare professionals. The brochures on this page are regularly rev...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

5 "Women's Diseases" Your Husband Can Get - Nursing Link

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Vicki Santillano | DivineCaroline March 14, 2011 It’s hard to escape the flagrant gender labeling in our society. Doll...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Fast response crucial in outbreaks of food-borne illness, study finds - USATODAY.com

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Nearly three years after a nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened about 1,500 people and claimed two lives, U.S. epidemiologists have...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Antiseptic baths 'reduce infection risk' | News | Nursing Times

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Using 2% chlorhexidine gluconate cloths for the daily bathing of inpatients, instead of soap and water, reduces the risk of hospital-acquir...
Friday, February 18, 2011

C. Difficile Spreads from Hospital to Community, ACG from MedPage Today

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Clostridium difficile infection has spread from the hospital to the community but has proved manageable thus far, according to data report...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Balancing infection control with the patient experience, KevinMD.com

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by Kevin Pho, MD Hospitals have recently been stepping up their infection control procedures, in the wake of news about iatrogenic infectio...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Starve a Cold, Feed a Fever? | Patient Advocate - Kitty Wilde, RN

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Do you starve a cold and feed a fever when you’re feeling under the weather? Or is it the other way around? Good news — starving is neve...