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IMPROVING ADHERENCE TO HAND
HYGIENE PRACTICE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Hand hygiene prevents
cross-infection in hospitals, but health-care
workers' adherence to guidelines
is poor.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
(7)2, 2001
http://id.medscape.com/39029.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
ANTIBIOTIC USE VARIES WIDELY
IN EUROPE
For the first time
researchers have looked at how often Europeans are using-- and possibly
overusing -- antibiotics, shedding light on how
drug-resistant bacteria
might develop.
http://id.medscape.com/38944.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
INCREASING NUMBER OF S.
PNEUMONIAE INFECTIONS RESISTANT TO DRUGS
The proportion of
Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics continues
to increase at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a new
report.
http://id.medscape.com/39051.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
EASTERN EUROPE FACES 'MAD
COW' EPIDEMIC'S SECOND WAVE
The Czech Republic may prove
to be the first east European country to fall victim to a second wave of bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or 'mad cow disease') spreading from countries
such as Germany and France, UK scientists said on Monday.
http://id.medscape.com/38940.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
US ANTHRAX VACCINE SHORTAGE
SLOWS MILITARY USE
Low supplies of the anthrax
vaccine are forcing the US military to tighten distribution further, using it
only to inoculate special mission forces and for government research, the
Pentagon said on Monday.
http://id.medscape.com/38979.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
SINGLE DOSE OF DOXYCYCLINE
MAY PREVENT DEVELOPMENT OF LYME DISEASE
A single dose of doxycycline
given within 72 hours after an Ixodes
scapularis tick bite is
often able to prevent the development of Lyme
disease, according to one of
several reports on Lyme disease released
Thursday by the New England
Journal of Medicine.
http://id.medscape.com/38957.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
POOR NUTRITION LINKED WITH
MORE VIRULENT VIRUS
Poor nutrition leads to
mutations that create more dangerous forms of the influenza virus and may
contribute to newly virulent outbreaks of viral epidemics ranging from the
common cold to AIDS and Ebola, researchers at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill reported on Friday.
http://id.medscape.com/38913.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
(Until and unless healthy
food/nutrition becomes patentable, though, don’t look for them encouraging this
over drugs and vaccines. – SM)
MEASLES VIRUS INDUCES
REGRESSION OF LYMPHOMA IN MICE
A live attenuated measles
virus induces regression of human B-cell lymphoma xenografts in severe combined
immunodeficient (SCID) mice, according to a report in the June 15th edition of
Bloo.
http://id.medscape.com/39072.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
(Maybe this is a natural benefit
of getting the measles – as opposed to the measles vaccine. – SM)
FDA RULE ADDS NEW INFECTIOUS
DISEASES TO BLOOD SCREENING REQUIREMENTS
The US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule requiring that all blood-drawing
facilities screen each donation of blood or a blood component for HIV types 1
and 2, hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human T-lymphotropic virus
(HTLV) types 1 and 2.
http://id.medscape.com/38908.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
(You mean they haven’t been
doing this all along? – SM)
BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF
TIMES FOR WORLD'S CHILDREN
Polio has been nearly
eradicated, fewer toddlers die before the age of 5 and more youngsters are in
school than ever before since the United
Nations' first World Summit
for Children in 1990.
http://id.medscape.com/38943.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
TUBERCULOSIS CASES DROP TO
RECORD LOW IN US
New cases of tuberculosis,
once a leading killer in the United States,
declined to an all-time low
last year due to improved screening and
treatment of those infected
with the bacterium, federal health experts said on Tuesday.
http://id.medscape.com/39055.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
KENYA PASSES BILL WEAKENING
DRUG PATENTS
The Kenyan parliament on
Tuesday passed a controversial bill opposed by the global pharmaceutical
industry that will allow the east African country to import and manufacture
cheap medicines.
http://id.medscape.com/39058.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
FTC TARGETS ONLINE HERBAL
REMEDY SCAMS
The US government said
Thursday that it has taken action against dozens of companies that promised to
cure AIDS and a host of other ailments with natural remedies and electric
devices sold over the Internet.
http://id.medscape.com/39135.rhtml?srcmp=id-061501
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