FDA announced it has allowed the marketing of the VITEK MS, which can identify 193 different microorganisms and perform up to 192 different tests in a single automated series of testing.
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 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.
Mixing novel technologies and methods with increased diligence in patient room decontamination is key to improving infection prevention.
Up to $24 million per year for four years will be awarded to establish six to eight of them.
That was the consensus during a July 17 meeting of the Emergency Committee. The committee will reconvene in September, if not earlier.
The committee's members are international experts who will meet July 9 and July 11.
Authors of a paper published online by the open-access journal PLOS ONE reported livestock-associated MRSA and multidrug-resistant staph linked to livestock were present only among workers exposed to industrial livestock operations.
The Centre for Health Protection's latest update, issued July 3, said 50 suspected human cases have been received since March 31.
It will aid "very ill patients who have exhausted or cannot take other available treatments," said Dr. Edward Cox, M.D., MPH, director of the Office of Antimicrobial Products in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Most of the 5,442 cases reported from Jan. 1 to May 1, 2013, are unvaccinated adult males.
Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, has served in the post since late 2009 and is the 18th surgeon general in U.S. history.
The regulations implement a European Directive and build on already existing Health and Safety Executive rules.
It addresses the various hazards encountered in group homes, such as infectious diseases, slips and falls, and patient lifting injuries.
A Nordstrom Café employee at a mall in San Francisco came into contact with food while infected with typhoid fever.
The agency urges patients to participate in hand hygiene to encourage overall safety.
The agency also highlighted the threat of antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion, where the emergency response has begun.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Tulsa Health Department announced the first round of results April 18 from testing completed on 3,122 people who had been patients of W. Scott Harrington's dental surgical practice.
Itar-Tass reports the body temperature of passengers arriving from China is being measured at border checkpoints.