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NICE renewed flu guidance

The next flu season will come. To prevent high-risk people from infections, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recently published a final guidance on Read more …

Infectious diseases

Hospital staff don’t care for influenza vaccination – for themselves

Injections, that’s everyday business for the men and women working in healthcare. As long as it is the patients who have to face the needle, it seems. Like in the years before Dr Read more …

Nosocomial infections

Scrub the scrubs

For several year, experts have been deploring the lack of physicians’ and healthcare workers’ attention to hand hygiene and equipment sterilisation. Now, hospital clothes are also Read more …

Finn got 10 years for criminal HIV transmission

A 25 year-old Finnish man, who is HIV-positive, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for five counts of criminal HIV transmission, 14 counts of attempted criminal HIV Read more …

A vicious cycle

Researcher have found that overcrowding and understaffing in hospitals lead to a failure of MRSA control programmes, which in turn results in increased inpatient hospital stay, Read more …

Nosocomial infections reach the court rooms

According to recent survey by the Leapfrog Group 87% of hospitals fail to adhere infection prevention measures on a consistent basis. In the Wall Street Journal, Betsy McCaughey, Read more …

Infection control in many languages

Devlin responds to the growing demand in Europe for infection control products, offering their “CleanKey” infection control keyboard in serveral European languages. Clean Key Read more …

Automation platforms to detect dangerous infections

bioMérieux developed three new microbiology laboratory automation platforms: Two new lab automatic tools and the the UF-1000i, a urinary screening tool to accurately Read more …

Airflows fight hospital infections

Hospital infections are immensely dangerous. Toul Meditech has therefore developed a new mobile laminar airflow system which can be used in every operating room in addition to the Read more …

New strategies against MRSA

A new paper by Shahriar Mobashery, Navari Family Professor in Life Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, and researchers in his lab provides important insights into promising Read more …

Focus: hygiene and nosocomial infections

They are one of the major threats in today’s hospital: tiny pathogens that hide out in catheters, in ventilation tubes, on instruments or on the keyboards of medical technological Read more …

Better protection for nurses! – A global call to action

Provision of standard infectious disease precautions and safe workplaces for nurses all around the world are the main claims of a statement shaped during the International AIDS Read more …

New treatment guidelines for HIV infection

An international panel of physicians has updated the guidelines and recommendations for antiretroviral treatment of adult human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection after Read more …

ESCAIDE 2008

For the second time the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, Sweden, invites to the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Read more …

A “palm” for biodetection

Scientists in Singapore are reporting their development of a complete, palm-sized sensor that can detect disease-causing microbes, toxins, and other biological threats instantly Read more …

Wound dressing fights the super bug

In any hospital, one of the most dreaded enemies is MRSA. This super-resistant pathogen laughs in the face of most antibiotics. But now, medical and hygiene product manufacturer Read more …

Russia: Fight against HIV

Russia has one of the fastest-growing AIDS epidemic in the world. One reason for this development is unsafe sex of addicts. Therefore sexual behaviour should be considered as an Read more …

MRSA in US hospitals

Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a pharmaceutical market research firm, found that the number of patients treated with an antibiotic associated with MRSA-infections within U.S. Read more …

Be prepared for the pandemic flu

The next pandemia will come - rather sooner than later. The respiratory protection of frontline staff is a major part of healthcare facilities' preparation. To assist hospitals, Read more …

How measles virus spread in its host

Every kindergarten undergoes it several times a year: the German measles. Nobody knew exactly how measles enter the body. But it has been thought they come through the surface of Read more …

India’s world experts on TB

Every three minutes, two people living in India die of tuberculosis. This equates to approximately 370,000 deaths each year, and a staggering economic toll: an estimated US$300 Read more …