While alcohol-based hand sanitizers are very useful in settings where there is an increase in the transmission of pathogens (such as hospitals), there are no additional health benefits to habitual hand sanitizing unless a person doesn’t have access to running water.
The agency said it had received more than 450 reports of infections or other issues in the last four years from reprocessed urological endoscopes, which are used to view or access the urinary tract. Three patient deaths were associated with these infections.
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Hospitals and health systems across the country are looking at disinfection through a new lens.
Scientists in Wales have potentially uncovered a new way to quickly identify bacterial infections using clues given off by a patient’s so-called immune fingerprint. Working with chronic kidney disease patients who acquired infections during dialysis, researchers at Cardiff University’s School of Medicine in the UK showed proof-of-concept that a person’s “immune fingerprint” reflected which organism […]
Viral infections are pesky, sneaky things. The infectious agents that cause maladies like influenza, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and Ebola hijack living cells and replicate, making it hard to destroy them without also harming an organism’s cells. And, they mutate to find new ways to attack cells. Erez Livneh and his small team at Vecoy Nanomedicines […]
Scientists in Singapore think there might be a way to fight microorganisms that cause infection with, well, other microorganisms that cause infection. Synthetic biologist Matthew Chang and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore bioengineered E. coli bacteria in a way that causes them to hunt down and kill the gram negative bacterium Pseudomonas […]
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As the healthcare industry spends millions of dollars developing vaccines, large-scale disinfectors and hand washing initiatives for care providers, a Cleveland-area nurse and her husband are proposing a much simpler contribution to the fight against hospital-acquired infections. Encourage patients to clean their hands more, too. Hand hygiene, after all, is widely regarded as the key […]
Surgical site infections are a nasty and persistent problem throughout the U.S. healthcare system, and affect as many as 5 percent of patients who undergo surgery. And with the rise of “superbugs,” or drug-resistant infections, the problem doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. The cost to the U.S. health system of each […]