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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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