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Infection control professionals must do a much better job of telling their "story" if they are to thrive in a competitive health care market where every dollar is in demand, former U.S. Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson recently said in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of healthcare quality promotion recently posted updated guidance on mumps and infection control on its web site. Key points regarding health care worker exclusion from work include the following:
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After some pointed discussion and one dissenting vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recently endorsed recommendations to immunize health care workers with the new pertussis vaccine.
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Voluntary annual influenza immunization programs that use educational efforts and other incentives to vaccinate health care workers have been an abject failure, a leading proponent of mandatory flu shots said recently in Tampa at the annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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With reports of more than 100 health care workers infected with mumps during a Midwest outbreak that now exceeds 4,000 cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all health care workers should have immunity to mumps and even those born before 1957 should receive one dose of vaccine.
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Two leading infection control and immunization advisory committees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have jointly endorsed new guidelines to give the new Tdap vaccine to health care workers to protect them and their patients from pertussis.
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A new report about the state of HIV/AIDS in America finds fault with how 25 years of presidents and Congresses have handled the AIDS epidemic domestically, which the report says has exploited longstanding inequities in American society.
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Each new HIV infection may reach more than $200,000 in medical costs and result in the loss of nearly 24 quality-adjusted life years, according to a new study.
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Researchers have developed a computerized condom use intervention that significantly improved consistent condom use among participants randomly selected at a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic.
