Showing posts with label Vectors of Infection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vectors of Infection. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Time to Eliminate Dangerous Injection Practices by Clinicians : Health in 30

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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Thanks to Laura Landro for shining light on unsafe injections in her WSJ blog , “Unsafe Injection Prac...
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

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 ...

GYT | Where music artists and celebrities meet to spread the word about getting tested | GYT I It's Your Sex Life

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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...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Male Circumcision and Risk for HIV Transmission: Implications for the United States | Factsheets | CDC HIV/AIDS

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Several types of research have documented that male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of HIV acquisition by men during penile-v...
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 ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hospital worker had deadly blood infection

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All Children's Hospital has contacted all the families whose children were exposed to an outpatient therapist who died Monday from a c...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Man's death tied to salmonella in Rhode Island

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An elderly man who tested positive for salmonella has died, according to Rhode Island officials investigating an outbreak of salmonella tha...
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...
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

Sick doctors who work are doing more harm to their patients than good

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Doctors: if you’re sick, don’t go to work. The stereotype of doctors is that they go to work, despite whatever symptoms ail them. Calling ...
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...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) Portal | Home Content

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As a healthcare professional, you recognize the importance of preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and keeping your patie...

Cash machines 'as dirty as toilets' - Telegraph

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Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on a string of city centre ATMs around England which are used by thousands of shoppers every...