Eight patients potentially were exposed through neurosurgical equipment "because the prion that causes sporadic CJD is not eradicated by the standard sterilization process mandated at hospitals," it stated, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services' announcement.
Chicago's McCormick Place once again will host one of the world's largest conferences for environmental, health, and safety professionals.
When training is done well, in combination with engineering controls, it is a very effective way to reduce back injuries and create safer lifting environments.
A presentation by officials from Saint Thomas Health, TOSHA, and federal OSHA traced the Midtown Hospital's four-year effort to become the first health care VPP site in the state last year.
If enough injured workers, employers, and health care providers opt in, the agency could save at least $1.3 million in the first year alone.
"This new preliminary estimate confirms that Lyme disease is a tremendous public health problem in the United States and clearly highlights the urgent need for prevention," said Dr. Paul Mead, M.D., MPH, chief of epidemiology and surveillance for CDC's Lyme disease program.
The Northumberland County EMS has begun using three new ambulances with lime green coloring and highly reflective prismatic material to make them more visible, especially at night.
All sterile drug products made and distributed by NuVision Pharmacy of Dallas may still pose a serious risk to patients, according to the agency.
Two are now in clinical trials and involve replacement skin grown in a lab and a “spray-on” skin process, according to a report by Terri Moon Cronk of American Forces Press Service.
After no confirmed cases were reported in Texas last year, there have been 11 thus far in 2013.
The Sept. 9 hearing by the U.S. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs will examine the department's approach to stopping preventable deaths, according to the chairman.
The FDA's latest action, involving bacterial infections potentially associated with a compounding pharmacy's product, shows the Pharmaceutical Quality, Security, and Accountability Act should be enacted, the HELP chairman said.
The plan by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands and colleagues in the United States and Hong Kong is to study how the H7N9 variant might become infectious person to person.
The company said it is believed to be the first clinical lab to offer testing for variants in all cytochrome P450 genes known to influence the CYP450 enzyme system, which affects the metabolism of opioids.
It's a possible alternative to IV antibiotics that are administered for up to eight weeks in the hospital, according to the authors.
Oct. 1’s third keynote session, a new addition to the educational program this year, looks like a "must attend" session of its own: the Prescription Drug Keynote.
The report says FDA's authority to oversee drug compounding is "unclear," and two federal circuit court decisions resulted in differing authority in different parts of the country.
Mixing novel technologies and methods with increased diligence in patient room decontamination is key to improving infection prevention.
The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 included a mandate to do this, with the first report to be provided to Congress by Feb. 14, 2014.
Thirty years old, it's scheduled to be replaced in 2015.