Health care workers are more stressed-out than workers from any other industry. They have high rates of depression. And while their challenges may seem to be personal ones, health care employers are beginning to recognize that mental health is a workplace concern, too.
A patient with influenza coughs. Viral particles fly across the room and linger in the air. A health care worker walks into the room and breathes in the invisible contaminant.
Just what is the risk of transmission from a coughing patient with influenza? Researchers still can't answer that question definitively, but airborne particles appear to play a greater role than previously believed.
Even as transmission of H7N9 avian influenza subsided in China this spring, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention remains at heightened concern over the potential for a new pandemic
Egg allergy should no longer prevent someone from receiving the seasonal influenza vaccine. A recombinant flu vaccine (Flublok by Protein Sciences Corp.) that is not produced with eggs will be available this fall for people between the ages of 18 and 49.
New patient handling standards from the American Nurses Association provide the first comprehensive guidelines that apply to all health care facilities.
Pertussis immunity wanes even one year after immunization with Tdap, so routine re-immunization of adults is not cost-effective, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded.
