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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Health: Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: The sixth millennium development goal, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, aims to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Since the millennium development goals were set, the incidence of HIV infection and associated mortality have continued to climb in low and middle income countries,...; Tags: Strategy, Infection, Developing Country, Income, Health Care, Analysis, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2005-11-10
Hospital Indicators of Poor Sexual Health: Poor sexual health is generally measured in terms of acute infections and unplanned pregnancies, with a focus within the UK on incident infections, and is obtained from returns from genitourinary medicine clinics. With the exception of HIV infection and some cases of hepatitis B, most people with a sexually transmitted...; Tags: Security, Health Care, Author, Infection; White papers 2005-05-21
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Length of Hospital Stay in the Medicare Population: This study uses cross-sectional analysis of huge Medicare hospital discharge databases to test the hypothesis that hospitals with longer inpatient average lengths of stay ALOS will have a higher healthcare associated infection HAI rates. This article offers hypotheses on the casualty of the ALOS-infection rate correlation and suggests ways to...; Tags: Healthcare, Health Care, Medicare, Hypotheses, Hospital, Infection; White papers 2004-06-01
Guidelines for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee: This paper updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and...; Tags: Vertical Industries, Long-term Care, Health Care, Infection, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers 2004-03-26
Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health: Care Settings 2003: This report consolidates previous recommendations and adds new ones for infection control in dental settings. Recommendations are provided regarding educating and protecting dental health-care personnel; preventing transmission of blood borne pathogens; hand hygiene; personal protective equipment; contact dermatitis and latex hypersensitivity; sterilization and disinfection of patient-care items; environmental infection control;...; Tags: Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Infection, Vertical Industries, Health Care; White papers 2003-12-19

Healthcare IAQ: Guidance For Infection Control: Indoor-air-quality IAQ challenges outnumber all others in the health-care industry. Unfortunately, the cost-conscious "powers that be" have failed to make the management of critical infection-control systems a top priority. This article provides guidance in the assessment of infection-control risks so that maintenance practices for health-care IAQ can be prioritized. Making...; Tags: Health Care, Infection, Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Security, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries; White papers 2001-04-01
Bayer HealthCare and Nektar Therapeutics Collaborate to Develop Inhaleable Ciprofloxacin Therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients: LEVERKUSEN, Germany & SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Novel Form of Ciprofloxacin to Treat Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections; Tags: Bayer AG, health care, infection, Nektar Therapeutics; Research articles 2005-01-25

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Joint Commission Resources Challenges Hospitals to Increase Flu Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Workers: In the Name of Patient Safety, Health Care Workers are Encouraged to Help Protect their Patients by Getting Vaccinated Against the Flu OAK BROOK, Ill., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Joint Commission Resources JCR has launched a Flu Vaccination Challenge to underscore the responsibility that hospitals have to...; Articles 2008-08-26
Sharp HealthCare Expands Premier Healthcare Alliance Affiliation to Include Web-based Infection Tracking Tool: San Diego Health System Will Use SafetySurveillor[TM] Solution to Increase Patient Safety, Improve Quality of Care, and Reduce Costs at Five Hospitals SAN DIEGO -- Sharp HealthCare and the Premier healthcare alliance, both based in San Diego and both recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, are...; Articles 2008-08-21
Meridian Animal Health Launches Quick Healing Liquid Suture and Bandage: Surgi-Lock 2oc[TM] and Epi-Heal[TM] Designed to Work in Conjunction to Provide Surgical Wound Care for Dogs, Cats and Equine OMAHA, Neb. -- Meridian Animal Health, a new Omaha-based companion animal health company, introduces two innovative surgical wound care products available exclusively to veterinarians. Surgi-Lock 2oc is an instant...; Articles 2008-08-20
SinoFresh® Nasal Spray Kills MRSA 'Super-Bug' in Live Noses: SinoFreshR Passes First Key Test for Potential to Control 'Super-Bug' MRSA VENICE, Fla., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SinoFresh HealthCare, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: SFSH) announced preliminary results today from a successful in vivo pilot study indicating that its patented SinoFreshR nasal spray was shown to be...; Articles 2008-08-19
BioNeutral's Ygiene New Hospital Grade Disinfectant Will Save Lives and Billions of Dollars Annually at Health Care Facilities Around the World: YgieneTM Hospital Grade antimicrobial sets the new global standard to eradicate (100% kill) in seconds the most difficult and lethal microorganisms commonly found in health care facilities, including MRSA and C. difficile NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- BioNeutral announces successful testing of its YgieneTM Hospital Grade...; Articles 2008-08-19
SinoFresh(R) Nasal Spray Kills MRSA "Super-Bug" in Live Noses: SinoFresh HealthCare, Inc. (OTCBB: SFSH)announced preliminary results today from a successful in vivo pilot studyindicating that its patented SinoFresh® nasal spray was shown to beuseful in controlling the MRSA "super-bug" in the nasal passages. Thisstudy utilized a recognized scientific model intended to demonstrateSinoFresh® nasal spray's ability to kill MRSA hiding...; Articles 2008-08-18
Ob/Gyn Group Urges Routine HIV Tests for All Women: Minority women are at higher risk for HIV/AIDS, and doctors need to make a special effort to encourage them to be tested for HIV. That's the new recommendation released Thursday by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ACOG. and also among Hispanics -- are much higher than among white...; Articles 2008-08-01
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Offers No Co-Pay for Use of Retail Clinics: New benefit available to lower health care costs, support new care models EAGAN, Minn. -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is offering a unique benefit to Minnesotans who seek medical treatment at retail clinics. Effective immediately, Blue Cross is offering a new benefit option...; Articles 2008-07-29
Surgical Errors Cost Almost $1.5B a Year: Preventing medical errors that occur during or after surgery could save lives and almost $1.5 billion a year, according to U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ study. The researchers analyzed data on more than 161,000 patients in employer-based health plans who underwent surgery between 2001 and 2002....; Articles 2008-07-28
Henry Ford Partners With Chrysler LLC to Open Health Care Clinic and Pharmacy to Deliver Medical Services Within Chrysler LLC Headquarters: DETROIT, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Chrysler LLC and Henry Ford Health System today announced plans to open an onsite health clinic and pharmacy inside Chrysler LLC's Auburn Hills headquarters, extending the collaboration between the two companies, while providing nearly 12,000 Chrysler employees and contractors with convenient access to high-quality...; Articles 2008-07-28
CDC, Premier Healthcare Alliance Work to Eliminate Occupational Needlestick Injuries: Hospitals Average 1,000 Accidental Injuries Daily, Can Lead to Life-Threatening Infections; Sharps Injury Prevention Workbook and Tools to Educate Personnel on Best Practices CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- More than 385,000 needlestick and other sharps-related injuries are sustained annually by hospital-based healthcare personnel, according to Centers for...; Articles 2008-07-09
Health agency's hiatus is over: HARRISBURG - Gov. Rendell yesterday signed an executive order reopening a highly regarded health-care agency after an unexpected weeklong hiatus. The order allows the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, which fell victim to the budget season's political battle, to resume operations through November and send its 44 employees,...; Articles 2008-07-09
US drug watchdog wants tendinitis warning on common antibiotic: WASHINGTON AFP — The US Food and Drug Administration has asked manufacturers of antibiotics in the fluoroquinolone family to beef up warnings that taking the anti-microbial medication increases the risk of tendinitis or tendon rupture. "Fluoroquinolones are effective in treating certain bacterial infections, but health care...; Articles 2008-07-09

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