The federal agency's most recent FluView report indicates flu activity is high overall across the country and will remain so for some time.
Resources available on the site, www.osha.gov/hospitals, will dovetail with efforts hospitals already are making to prevent worker injuries from patient moving, slips and falls, needlesticks, and more.
A national campaign started in 133 VA long-term care facilities four years ago reduced them by 36 percent, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Poudre Valley Hospital is recommending the testing for 210 former patients who were treated in its intensive care unit between Sept. 1, 2011, and Aug. 28, 2012. A former employee suspected of diverting prescription painkillers may have put them at risk of exposure.
The FDA proposed a new rule designed to determine both the safety and effectiveness of antibacterial hand soap and body washes.
Sovaldi is the third drug with breakthrough therapy designation to receive FDA's approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 22 announced the approval of Olysio (simeprevir) to treat chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
FDA announced Nov. 22 that it has approved the first adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine, Q-pan, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline to protect against H5N1 influenza.
"Blood exposure among health care workers is a serious occupational risk that health care facilities strive to reduce," said Linda Good, director of Employee Occupational Services for Scripps Health and co-author of the EXPO-S.T.O.P. survey. "For the first time, we now have stick and splash exposure benchmark rates that represent the United States nationally."
The updated Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap says the world should have vaccines capable of reducing cases by 75 percent by that date.
The new rule eases the regulation of beef imports in relation to Mad Cow Disease, making the United States fall more in line with international standards.
We all feel the hurt when employee health is not addressed.
Dr. Dipak Desai of Las Vegas is eligible for parole after 18 years, and his co-defendant received a term of eight to 21 years in prison.
New research from a Johns Hopkins University panel that assesses the safety of antibiotic use in livestock warns that the general public may face serious health risks.
The posted agenda for the public meeting indicates it will include the announcement of a new federal advisory committee.
With concerns raised about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), with a majority of cases being reported in Saudi Arabia, health authorities boosted surveillance and health education for incoming pilgrims and installed a new lab at Mena Alwadi Hospital to rapidly conduct tests for suspected cases.
This third case reportedly involves a rookie cornerback on the football team. A Duke Infection Control Outreach Network specialist spoke with the players and the team’s staff on Friday and answered their questions.
Over-the-counter remedies and prescription drugs may affect the health of your workers and at the same time may carry over into the work environment.
The agency's new report lists four core actions it says must be taken to prevent the spread of infections. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate HELP Committee has set a Sept. 24 hearing on ways to reduce health care-associated infections.
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.