Showing posts with label IDSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IDSA. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2014

CID Journal: Under Utilization Of Antivirals For At Risk Flu Patients

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  # 8842   Between the frequent hyperbolic demonization of  influenza antivirals ( see Daily Mail: Ministers blew £650MILLIO...
Friday, September 14, 2012

IDSA: Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness

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    # 6556   This morning the IDSA ( Infectious Disease Society of America ) and the AMA held a 2-hour webinar as part of the l...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Norovirus Sequelae

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    # 6404     Last month I wrote a blog called Norovirus: The Gift That Keeps On Giving , about an outbreak of this nasty gastroi...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Study: Aerosolized Influenza And PPEs

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Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)   # 6253   We’ve a new study, appearing yesterday in the journal Clinical Infecti...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Study: Statins, Influenza, & Mortality

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      # 6008   We’ve a study today that lends additional weight to the argument that statins – a class of cholesterol lowering dr...
Friday, December 09, 2011

E. Coli: In the Raw (cookie dough)

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      # 5998   Little noticed by the public, since it happened more or less at the same time as the emergence of 2009’s H1N1 vi...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

IDSA: Educational Guidelines Lower Antibiotic Use

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      Photo Credit – CDC   # 5715   From the IDSA ( Infectious Diseases Society of America ) today, a major report on the ...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

PPEs & Transocular Influenza Transmission

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        Photo Credit PHIL (Public Health Image Library)     # 5633   Constant readers of this blog are aware that over ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Measles: Forgotten, But Not Gone

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    # 5530     Measles, which was once almost a youth’s ` rite of passage’ in the United States, has been all but eliminated i...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

APIC Calls For Mandatory Flu Vaccination For HCWs

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    # 5282     APIC (the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. ) has joined the chorus of oth...
Wednesday, December 08, 2010

JID: Emerging Influenza Resistance Threats

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        # 5125     The old adage - ` if you make a better mouse trap, nature will begin to work on a better mouse’ - is well ...