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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting comments on its proposed guidance on antiviral prophylaxis during an influenza pandemic.
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Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment?
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It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees.
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If you could give health care workers the ideal respirator, what would it look like? For the first time, an interagency task force is considering that question in a project they hope will result in a more effective, less cumbersome respirator perhaps one that doesn't require fit-testing.
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Exactly 1397 antiretroviral (ARV) naïve patients initiating ARVs, as part of a CPCRA-sponsored clinical trial (FIRST trial), were followed for a median of five years.
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In the health care setting, transmission of varicella zoster virus (VZV) from dermatomal herpes zoster lesions is generally felt to be insignificant, as long as the lesions are kept covered.
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Pneumococcal meningitis remains a deadly disease, with a case fatality rate among adults that is still above 20%, with also permanent neurological sequelae in a substantial minority of survivors.
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Threats to laboratory workers come in many varieties, ranging from earthquakes to fires. But one threat that has acquired enhanced visibility in this age of bioterrorism is the threat of a laboratory-acquired infection.
