16 Aug 2011
Visit the Health Care Blog for a guest post by Lauri Hicks, Medical Director of CDC’s Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work Program, Seema Jain, Medical Epidemiologist for the Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, Influenza Division at the CDC, and Ramanan Laxminarayan, Director of CDDEP and our Extending the Cure Project.
10 Aug 2011
The
Society for
Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the Public Health Foundation
of India (PHFI) and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP)
are pleased to announce pre-Forum workshops on Infection Control and
Antimicrobial Stewardship.
2 Aug 2011
In the wake of the NDM-1 controversy, the Government of India created
a committee to frame a new antibiotic policy for the country. One of the
recommendations of this committee was to regulate the sale of antibiotics by
introducing “Schedule H1” under the Drugs and Cosmetics rules, to “regulate
sale of antibiotics exclusively” (Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare 2011). The existing Schedule H
contains 536 drugs, which cannot be legally dispensed without the prescription
of a registered medical practitioner (RMP).
28 Jul 2011
We can only wonder about the fallout from the recent
revelation of a CIA-organized
vaccination campaign in Pakistan, which concurrently collected DNA
samples in the hopes of pinpointing the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Pakistan, already a harbor of suspicion towards
global vaccination efforts, is also considered to be a ground-zero for
polio eradication.
21 Jul 2011
Another study documenting the costs and mortality associated
with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), this time with trauma
patients.
The article from the Archives of Surgery looks at the impact
of sepsis, pneumonia, Staphylococcus infections, and C. difficile-associated
disease (CDAD) on mortality, length of stay, and inpatient costs. Here are some of the findings:
