Get Smart About Antibiotics Week begins today and runs through Oct. 11. This annual effort coordinates the work of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign, state-based appropriate antibiotic use campaigns, nonprofit partners, and for-profit partners during a week-long observance focused on antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use.
According to CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, many people who have died from 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States had co-infections with a common bacteria, Streptococcus pneumoniae or pneumococcus.
A study on the self-reported health of Americans ages 18 to 64 revealed that the flu is responsible for 200 million days of diminished productivity, 100 million days of bed disability, and 75 million days of work absence. Each episode of illness translates into five to six days of symptoms and between a half-day and five days of work missed.
It has been seven and a half years since the University of Arizona indelibly changed much of corporate America's lunch habits by releasing its landmark revelation that the average office desk harbors 400 times more disease-causing microorganisms than the average toilet seat. Even prior to that skin-crawling announcement, though, Meinrad Flury, CEO of the Switzerland-based Joker AG, was busy in his laboratory trying to perfect a substance that could clean and disinfect such tricky-todegrime equipment as computer keyboards, mice, and other components, which, as it turns out, are bacterial hotbeds all.
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced the availability of the first draft guidance for industry on Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), titled "Format and Content of Proposed Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), REMS Assessments, and Proposed REMS Modifications," which are required for certain drugs or biologics.
They're the front lines and the heart of the nation's defense against the H1N1 flu, and the care they provide will be vital during the 2009/2010 U.S. flu season. How well the employees of about 5,000 hospitals can perform their duties may depend on those individuals' willingness to receive flu vaccinations, as health care professional associations and leaders of this year's Joint Commission Resources Flu Vaccination Challenge 2009-2010 strongly encourage.
Many companies kick back reflexively during tight times, like a crossed knee tapped by a rubber mallet.
Between the National Safety Congress and A+A, taking place amid Dusseldorf's lovely scenery, the world's PPE providers and safety professionals will have plenty to chew on before the holidays.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its Strategic Plan for Risk Communication, which outlines the agency's efforts to disseminate more meaningful public health information.
To help employers prepare for the potential impact this virus could have on their workplaces, OSHA is presenting a forum today.
Maximizing the proportion of time spent performing chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) substantially improves survival in patients who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting, according to a multicenter clinical study that included UT Southwestern Medical Center.
One out of every eight strokes is preceded by a "warning stroke," which is a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or mild stroke, according to research published in the Sept. 29, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
New research published in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons challenges the widely held belief that more medical errors occur in teaching hospitals during the month of July due to the influx of new graduates from medical and nursing schools--also known as the "July Phenomenon."
The Mount Sinai Medical Center recently released a Q&A with Infection Control Ocfficer David Pr. Calfee, M.D., concerning flu vaccination.
While lawyers said last week they have found a new cluster of Hepatitis C among patients treated at Las Vegas clinics involved in lawsuits and bankruptcy, the surgery technician who reused dirty needles at a Denver hospital pleaded guilty to federal charges Friday and faces sentencing in December.
University of Michigan scientists have developed a combination drug that promises a safer, more precise way for medics and fellow soldiers in battle to give a fallen soldier both morphine and a drug that limits morphine’s dangerous side effects.
The Food and Drug Administration has cautioned users of personal emergency response buttons worn around the neck of a potential choking hazard associated with this product.
Theodore P. Zoli and Yale Program on Aging Director Mary Tinetti are among 24 researchers given $500,000 grants by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The June 2008 relocation of the UCLA Medical Center involved limiting incoming transfers and more efficient discharge, enabling a smooth transition without interrupting emergency services, an Archives of Surgery paper reports.
Losing weight may preserve kidney function in obese people with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The findings indicate that taking off the pounds could be an important step kidney disease patients can take to protect their health.