HOSP || Infectious Diseases

FDA panel endorses antibacterial dalbavancin

Posted on: 01/04/2014 - 14:20

SILVER SPRING, MD. – A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to support the approval of the antibacterial drug dalbavancin for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and...

Field of Interest: Dermatology

Type: News Item

Switching biologic may lower risk of second infection-related hospitalization in RA

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 13:25

Rheumatoid arthritis patients taking an anti–tumor necrosis factor agent who had a prior hospitalization because of an infection significantly reduced their risk of a subsequent infection-related...

Field of Interest: Rheumatology

Type: News Item

Switching biologic may lower risk of second infection-related hospitalization in RA

Posted on: 24/03/2014 - 13:25

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

‘Culture of Safety’ best defense against sharps injury

Posted on: 21/03/2014 - 18:10

DENVER – Of all the procedures and behaviors that place dermatologists at risk for occupational exposure, needlestick injuries rank at the top. According to 1999 data from the National Institute...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Protocol-based resuscitation fails to beat usual care in early sepsis

Posted on: 18/03/2014 - 18:25

Protocol-based resuscitation did not reduce sepsis deaths or morbidity, compared with usual care, in the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock study conducted at 31 U.S. academic hospitals. Among...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Patients with both HIV and HCV have higher hepatic decompensation rates, despite antiretrovirals

Posted on: 17/03/2014 - 21:00

Patients with HCV-HIV coinfections had significantly higher rates of hepatic decompensation vs. HCV-monoinfected patients, even when they received antiretroviral therapy and maintained low HIV RNA...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

FDA issues warning about using doripenem for ventilator-associated pneumonia

Posted on: 07/03/2014 - 22:00

When used to treat ventilator-associated pneumonia, the antibacterial drug doripenem is linked to a greater risk of mortality and lower clinical cure rates compared with imipenem and cilastatin for...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

HHS proposes new targets for HAI reduction

Posted on: 04/03/2014 - 20:15

Federal officials are proposing new targets for reducing health care–associated infections, including a 75% reduction in invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections by...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

West Nile virus has cost the United States nearly $800 million

Posted on: 10/02/2014 - 22:00

Since the West Nile virus was first detected in New York in 1999, hospitalized patients in the United States have cost an estimated $778.1 million in health care expenditures and lost productivity,...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

Exam-room posters cut inappropriate antibiotics prescriptions

Posted on: 27/01/2014 - 21:00

Exam-room posters declaring a clinician’s commitment to make appropriate antibiotics prescriptions may be a simple, low-cost approach to reducing inappropriate use of antibiotics for acute...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases

Type: News Item

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