The network includes 289 hospitals and 33,530 primary care and specialist physicians to serve about 1.1 million Aetna members in the state.
In the report, CDC and collaborators describe 159 transfusion–related babesiosis cases that occurred during 1979-2009, most (77 percent) from 2000 to 2009.
The number of children hospitalized for skin and soft-tissue infections, mostly due to community-acquired MRSA, has more than doubled since 2000.
Researchers found that exactly half of all the cultures taken, representing 65 percent of RN uniforms and 60 percent of MD uniforms, harbored pathogens.
Committee members are hard at work on the 2014 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said the most recent H5N1 death occurred earlier this month in Cambodia, which has registered eight cases of human infection this year. All were fatal.
The Health Industry Distributors Association's "Preparing Your Customers for the Coming Flu Season" one-hour webinar begins at 2 p.m. EST Aug. 25 and will feature Litjen (L.J.) Tan, MS, Ph.D., director of medicine and public health for the American Medical Association.
The public workshop will take place Sept. 16 in Gaithersburg, Md., and seek to identify key issues in the development and evaluations of these vaccines.
When hazardous drugs must be prepared and administered, there are workplace best practices that can minimize potentially harmful exposure. These include the use of engineering controls and personal protective equipment.
Malaria rates among members of the U.S. military who were born in western Africa were 44 times higher during 2002-2010 than rates for members who were born in the United States, authors of a paper being published in the September issue of CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal report.
The study found that health care workers perceived surfaces as safer to touch than patient skin, in spite of research that has proven touching one contaminated surface can spread bacteria to up to the next seven surfaces touched.
The new bacterium, not yet named, has been identified in more than 25 people and found in black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The national health reform plan announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon will deliver an extra $175 billion to public hospitals through 2030.
About half of the states are at risk of dengue fever outbreaks, the analysis of CDC and National Climatic Data Center data indicates.
More than a million of these inaccurate blood tests are carried out annually to diagnose active TB, often at great financial cost to patients.
The tools are designed to help food and agriculture stakeholders and emergency preparedness planners collaborate better with each other, neighboring jurisdictions, the food industry, and federal agencies during food emergencies.
The vaccine formulation protects against the three virus strains that surveillance indicates will be most common during the upcoming season and includes the same virus strains used for the 2010-2011 influenza season.
In their current study, the researchers looked at the compatibility of the 2009 pandemic pH1N1 virus—which has some genetic characteristics that may allow it to reassort more easily than other influenza viruses—with an influenza strain known as H9N2.
The guide states that all outpatient practices should ensure that at least one individual with specific training in infection control is on staff or regularly available. This individual should be involved in developing a written infection control policy and have regular communication with health care providers to address specific issues or concerns.
“Without knowing it, manufacturing workers may be ingesting certain heavy metals at elevated levels from this unexpected source," said Barbara Beck, Ph.D., DABT, principal at Gradient, the firm that conducted the research. "For some of these metals, the amounts ingested may be greater than allowed in drinking water on a daily basis."