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Wobenzym Ingredients: Wobenzym ingredients are designed to reduce cholesterol, by assisting the blood cells growth with enzymes, thus enhancing the body's ability to circulate properly. The theory behind the production of Wobenzym is that by enhancing the blood circulation and immunity system, it will reduce the risks of heard diseases, including strokes...; Tags: SECURITY, infection, theory; White papers
Trouble Shooting Troublesome Somatic Cell Counts: There are three basic principles of mastitis control: eliminate existing infections, prevent new intra-mammary infections IMI and monitor infection status. Prevention practices including proper maintenance and use of milking equipment, and employment of proper milking procedure help prevent new IMI during the milking process. Maintaining a clean environment helps prevent...; Tags: infection, monitor, environment; White papers
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
Signs and Symptoms in Children With a Serious Infection: A Qualitative Study: Early diagnosis of serious infections in children is difficult in general practice, as incidence is low, patients present themselves at an early stage of the disease and diagnostic tools are limited to signs and symptoms from observation, clinical history and physical examination. Little is known which signs and symptoms are...; Tags: BioMed Central, infection, patient, tool; White papers 2005-08-26
Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Use Versus a Standard Approach for Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Primary Care: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial and Baseline Characteristics of Participating General Practitioners [ISRCTN73182671]: Acute respiratory tract infections ARTI are among the most frequent reasons for consultations in primary care. Although predominantly viral in origin, ARTI often lead to the prescription of antibiotics for ambulatory patients, mainly because it is difficult to distinguish between viral and bacterial infections. A novel approach is to guide...; Tags: BioMed Central, infection, therapy, patient; White papers 2005-08-18

Cost-Effective Allocation of Government Funds to Prevent HIV Infection: Relative to the magnitude of the epidemic, government funds available for HIV prevention are scarce. To optimize use of funds, the paper applies a mathematical model of the cost of HIV prevention interventions using national data on HIV risk-group size and HIV prevalence. This procedure suggested an allocation of funds...; Tags: Project HOPE, allocation, infection; White papers 2005-08-01
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: infection, pregnancy, hospital, women, health care; White papers 2005-05-21
Influence of Patient Symptoms and Physical Findings on General Practitioners Treatment of Respiratory Tract Infections: A Direct Observation Study: The high rate of antibiotic prescriptions general practitioners GPs make for respiratory tract infections RTI are often explained by non-medical reasons e.g. an effort to meet patient expectations. Additionally, it is known that GPs to some extent believe in the necessity of antibiotic treatment in patients with assumed bacterial infections...; Tags: BioMed Central, patient, infection; White papers 2005-02-07
DNA Vaccines: Designing Strategies against Parasitic Infections: This white paper document emphasizes on the fact that the complexity of parasitic infections requires novel approaches to vaccine design. The versatility of DNA vaccination provides new perspectives. This review discusses the use of prime-boost immunizations, genetic adjuvants, multivalent vaccines and codon optimization for optimal DNA vaccine design against parasites.; Tags: Biotechnology, HEALTHCARE, BioMed Central, vaccine, DNA, infection, strategy; White papers 2004-12-03
Sex Without Disclosure of Positive HIV Serostatus in a US Probability Sample of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection: This paper estimates the proportion of HIV-positive adults who have any sexual contact without disclosure and the proportion of their sexual partnerships that involve unprotected sex without disclosure. Overall, 42% of the gay or bisexual men, 19% of the heterosexual men, and 17% of all the women reported any sex...; Tags: Business structures, RAND Corp., partnership, women; White papers 2004-09-23
Reducing Surgical Site Infections Through Six Sigma & Change Management: In addition to providing obvious benefits for the patient, reducing surgical site infections offers a number of advantages for the hospital as well in conserving valuable resources - money, supplies, time, and labor - that can be applied in other care areas. Without the added length of stay, the hospital...; Tags: TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process improvement, HEALTHCARE, GE Medical Systems, Six Sigma, hospital, patient, change management, benefit; White papers 2004-08-16
Trends in Primary and Secondary Syphilis and HIV Infections in Men Who Have Sex With Men: San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, 1998-2002: This report describes the results of that investigation, which indicated that, as of 2002, the outbreaks of syphilis had not had a substantial impact on HIV incidence among MSM in these two cities. However, the continued increase in syphilis cases in MSM underscores the need for integrated HIV- and STD-prevention...; Tags: infection, strategy; White papers 2004-07-09
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, hypotheses, Medicare, hospital, health care, analysis, database; 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, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, long-term care, advisory committee; 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: infection, health care; White papers 2003-12-19
Invasive Streptococcus Pyogenes After Allograft Implantation: Colorado, 2003: This report describes a case of invasive disease with Streptococcus pyogenes (i.e., group A streptococcus [GAS]), after reconstructive knee surgery using contaminated allograft tissue and provides recommendations to reduce the risk for allograft-associated infections. Although allograft infections are rare, they highlight the need for improved tissue evaluation and processing standards.; Tags: SECURITY, infection; White papers 2003-12-05
Prion Infection on the Rise? Hospitals in Need of Modern Risk Management: The consumption of foods contaminated with BSE bovine spongiform encephalopathy has fortunately resulted in only isolated cases of human infection to date. The ban on manufacturing foods using high-risk organs from cattle, sheep and goats imposed by the European Union in 2000 further reduced the risk of infection. Nevertheless, we...; Tags: Food & Beverage, SECURITY, Swiss Reinsurance Co., infection, hospital, food, manufacturing, risk management; White papers 2003-08-19
Prevention and Management of Infections in Residents of Long -Term Care Facilities: The purpose of this document, and the conference upon which it was based, is to briefly review what is known about major issues surrounding the prevention and management of infections in long-term care facilities LTCFs, to identify important gaps in knowledge in these areas, and to suggest questions and topics...; Tags: Emory University, long-term care facility, long-term care, infection, knowledge; White papers 2002-01-30
Effects of Remote, Retroactive Intercessory Prayer on Outcomes in Patients With Bloodstream Infection: Randomised Controlled Trial: Two randomised controlled trials tested the effect of remote intercessory prayer praying for persons unknown on outcomes in patients admitted to an intensive coronary care unit. Both studies showed a beneficial effect. A recent systematic review of the efficacy of distant healing concluded that "Approximately 57% (13 of 23) of...; Tags: Infection, Patient, Trial; White papers 2001-12-22
Observer Variation in Chest Radiography of Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in Children: A Systematic Review: Knowledge of the accuracy of chest radiograph findings in acute lower respiratory infection in children is important when making clinical decisions. The paper deals with the conduction of a systematic review of agreement between and within observers in the detection of radiographic features of acute lower respiratory infections in children,...; Tags: BioMed Central, infection, knowledge, agreement; White papers 2001-11-12