Disease Control Articles & Analysis

Join us for another exciting KT Connects with Dr. Emily Rempel as she explores and shares lessons from the COVID-19 infodemic to create more effective knowledge translation response in times of crisis. Dr. Emily Rempel is a Red River Métis and White critical social researcher and a Knowledge Translation Lead at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Her work focuses on equity, public ...

By K-Tec Earthmovers Inc.

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Executive Order 13045 - 'Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks.' Executive Order 13045 requires each federal agency to identify and evaluate environmental health and safety risks to children. Today, experts in children's environmental health protection shared their ideas about how to protect children over the next 10 ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. Their newest production discusses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of ten questions to help people learn their chances of developing a fungal infection. “The CDC states that only about 300 out of 1.5 million different species of fungi are known to ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:TOMZ), a global green leader in infectious disease control and surface and air remediation, announced today that it made its first sale to a developer in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Halden Shane, TOMI’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We at TOMI are very pleased about entering into this ...

By SteraMist Disinfection

Artesunate for Injection 110 mg, powder and solvent for solution is approved by FDA for initial treatment of severe malaria in adult and pediatric patients. Artesunate for Injection is in a group of drugs known as “artemisinin derivatives” and is on the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines. Since 2007, Investigational Intravenous (IV) Artesunate has been ...

By Amivas (US), LLC

Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of their latest educational video. Their newest production discusses a list of the biggest drug-resistant microbial threats published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2013. “Some people are at greater risk than others of superbug infections, but no one can completely avoid the ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have published information on how to protect yourself & others from COVID-19. One of the most effective ways to stop the spread of COVID-19 is washing your hands. The CDC recommends: Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing. ...

By Sasha’s International Inc.

MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, occurs more frequently in the summer and fall, according to new research. Dr. Leonard Mermel, lead author and medical director of the department of epidemiology and infection control at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and his team analyzed MRSA samples from the hospitals microbiology department that were taken over a 10-year period. Their ...

By SteraMist Disinfection

We are now gaining an understanding of the impact of this global pandemic. Infection rate drives the need for better data collection, analysis and reporting in real-time. Addressing contamination control for our healthcare facilities becomes ground zero in preventing and controlling an outbreak. In their efforts to fight the pandemic and contain its spread, Novatek Medical Data Systems has ...

By Novatek Medical Data Systems

NIMH, along with three other NIH Institutes, will be supporting a joint effort with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Autism Speaks, a private advocacy organization, to investigate reports of elevated prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) among children born to Somali immigrants living in Minneapolis, Minn. At the October 2010 meeting of the Interagency Autism ...

By National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

A closer look at the recently released survey reveals adolescent e-cigarette use remains enticing, leading to concerning numbers. Survey Findings Approximately 14.1% of high school students (2.14 million) and 3.3% of middle school students (380,000) reported using e-cigarettes or other vape products. How often they use: About 1 in 4 – or 27.6%– report using daily; 4 in 10 ...

By Zeptive

The widespread assumption that pandemic influenza is an exceptionally deadly form of seasonal, or nonpandemic, flu is hard to support, according to a new study in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The study challenges common beliefs about the flu--in particular the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claim that 'the hallmark of pandemic influenza is excess ...

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EPA Region 7 conducted an inspection at Blue Springs Siding and Windows, LLC, in September 2014, which revealed violations of the Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule. As part of a settlement with EPA, the company has agreed to pay a $13,566 penalty to the United States. According to an administrative consent agreement and final order filed today by EPA Region 7 in Lenexa, Kan., the ...

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

On February 17, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance revising its recommendation regarding controlling Candida auris (C. auris) infections in U.S. healthcare facilities. The CDC guidance now recommends a “thorough daily and terminal cleaning and disinfection” of patient rooms in which ...

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

MerLion Pharmaceuticals GmbH (MerLion), a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel antibiotics, reported the receipt of the final meeting minutes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following a successful Type C meeting with the Agency on the development of the antibiotic finafloxacin for the treatment of melioidosis, in a naturally occurring as well as a biodefense ...

By MerLion Pharmaceuticals GmbH

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published on October 3, 2024, linked Burkholderia multivorans infections to ice machines in multiple healthcare facilities in the western United States. This post summarizes key findings, implications, and recommended practices for healthcare providers to ensure patient ...

By Liquitech, Inc.

Earlier this month, the Northwest Herald reported about the state of infection control at same-day surgical centers across Illinois. According to the article, of the surgery centers inspected in the past year, 2/3 had been cited for infection control problems. News of these infection control problems coincide with a new federal report that was just released that shows an increase in ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

DALLAS, Texas, July 18, 2007 (ENS) - The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma will take part in a new community health protection and education initiative sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and CDC Director Julie Gerberding signed a formal memorandum of understanding today that will ...

By Environment News Service (ENS)

Wednesday 15th October marked the first ever Global Handwashing Day, celebrated in over 70 countries across five continents in an effort to mobilize and motivate millions around the world to wash their hands with soap. Handwashing with soap is one of the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrheal disease and pneumonia, which together are responsible for approximately 3.5 million ...

By United Nations

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one out of every twenty hospital patients acquires an infection while being treated for another illness. Reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has become a central focus of the CDC in recent years and many healthcare facilities across Illinois have been on the frontline of these efforts. Healthcare-associated ...

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC