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Nearly half of the world's population live in malaria-endemic geographic regions, and more than one million African children die of malaria each year. Vaccine development continues.
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Eleven heroin users in Northern England and Scotland, as well as a possible twelfth, have been diagnosed with anthrax infection; five have died.
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n this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has completed a massive update and revision of its 1981 guidelines to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that infection preventionists implement quality improvement (QI) programs or strategies to enhance appropriate use of indwelling catheters and to reduce the risk of CA-UTI based on a facility risk assessment.
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In a move that could affect hospital infection prevention programs, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is taking the first steps toward a possible airborne infectious diseases standard.
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Although generally institutions were well prepared for the H1N1 crisis, respondents to this survey said they had to neglect other medical duties, were aware of antiviral hoarding by colleagues and overall favored mandatory vaccination of health care workers, the authors of this timely report conclude.
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What's it like to make the move from hospital infection preventionist to independent consultant?
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(Editor's note: In this issue of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, we continue our focus on infection prevention advances in the surgical suite, following our report on blunt suture needles last month with this special report on a new standard care emerging for skin cleaning of the patient surgical site.)
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Surgical-site infections (SSI) significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and can cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date.
