A new AHA Trailblazers report, “Small Things Matter in Infection Prevention,” explores how hospitals are expanding surveillance programs to include peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) and other ...

Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital has detected Legionnaires’ disease in two patients in the past six weeks, NBC affiliate WLWT5 reported Nov. 3. The source of exposure is unknown, but hospital ...

New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller shortfall. But they hope to have a higher success rate than the Federal Aviation Agency’s official academy. New programs ...

Their specificity for the host is partly achieved by specific host adhesion mechanisms. As adhesins are required for the first step of colonization, they also constitute key virulence factors and have ...

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed an outbreak of a rare bloodstream infection linked to a commonly used probiotic in private hospitals in Gauteng and the North West ...

Background Balance training (BT) programs seem to be appropriate for non-athletes and athletes, but the use of multi-intervention BT protocols make difficult to observe how balance exercises improve ...

A regular soldier has flown a remote-control Black Hawk helicopter after less than an hour’s training. A U.S. Army National Guard Sergeant First Class became the first soldier to independently plan, ...

The control of unwanted chemicals in food, such as residues of pesticides or veterinary drugs used in food production, or natural contaminants such as mycotoxins, remains an area of high importance to ...