Latest Epidemiology Stories
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DebMed(®), the creator of the world's first and only electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene" is now the only hand hygiene system that meets the WHO's "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands" recommendation. The "Five Moments for Hand Hygiene" is from the WHO's "Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care." As part of a major global effort to improve hand...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) revealed that cancer mortality decreased 20 percent from its peak in 1991; the organization believes that the drop is a milestone, with an estimated 1.2 million deaths of cancer avoided. The findings were recently reported in ACS's yearly Cancer Statistics report, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. ACS provides estimates of the new cancer cases and deaths expected in the current...
eGEMs Features Innovations in the Use of Electronic Clinical Data to Improve Health Care WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AcademyHealth today announced the official launch of eGEMs, a free, peer-reviewed e-publication that will publish innovative ideas and practices using electronic clinical data to advance health systems research and quality improvement, and improve patient and community outcomes. Rapid growth in the availability of electronic clinical data is...
LONDON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bioradar UK Ltd this week reported that the H3N2 Lethality Gene Counts are approaching those of the highly lethal H3N2 pandemic of 1968 (1)(see Figure). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130116/PH43879-INFO ) The severe flu outbreaks in 41 U.S. states in the first week of 2013 (CDC), predominately H3N2, further suggest that the State Fair 2012 H3N2 cases and the current outbreaks may be the opening salvos of an approaching H3N2...
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Health care journalists, providers and administrators seeking research on interventions to address heath disparities now have access to the most comprehensive collection of summaries and systematic reviews of racial and ethnic health disparities intervention literature available anywhere. The Finding Answers Intervention Research Database - known as the FAIR Database www.solvingdisparities.org/fair -- contains 388 journal article...
Patients recovering from surgery get infections far more often than is being reported, a new study led by De Montfort University has found. Infection prevention specialists are now calling on the Department of Health to bring in a clear and standardized system for hospitals to try to identify the true scale of surgical infections. They say a study of the way in which NHS hospital trusts in England has shown "worrying inconsistencies" between hospitals in how they defined surgical site...
VANCOUVER, Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("Anavex") (OTCQB: AVXL) announces the appointment of Athanasios (Tom) Skarpelos as a Director of the company effective January 9, 2013. "Tom has been actively involved in Anavex since the very beginning," said Sean Lowry, former Director of Anavex. "His passion for Anavex and its assets, and his relationships with people and organizations close to the company have characterized the company's development since...
Spin and bias exist in a high proportion of published studies of the outcomes and adverse side-effects of phase III clinical trials of breast cancer treatments, according to new research published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology today (Thursday). In the first study to investigate how accurately outcomes and side-effects are reported in breast cancer trials, researchers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) found that in a third of all...
Duke researchers are looking to genomic technologies – not the isolation of bacteria or viruses – to quickly detect and diagnose infectious diseases such as the flu and staph. Two studies appearing online Jan. 9, 2013, both in the journal PLOS ONE, show how a pattern of genomic information among infected individuals can be used to accurately pinpoint the cause of infection. "Traditional diagnostic tests for infectious diseases rely on detecting the specific illness-causing...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- goBalto, Inc., a developer of new-generation web clinical research solutions, today announced that INC Research, a therapeutically-focused clinical research organization (CRO), has selected goBalto Tracker 2.0 as its global site activation solution. Tracker is a secure, web-based platform that enables study teams to track and manage site activation activities in clinical trials. "We chose goBalto Tracker as part of our study startup...
Latest Epidemiology Reference Libraries
Diabetes Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal established in 1978 and published monthly by the American Diabetes Association. It covers research in the following five categories: clinical care/education/nutrition/psychosocial research; epidemiology/health services research; emerging treatments and technologies; pathophysiology/complications; and cardiovascular and metabolic risk. The journal also publishes clinically relevant review articles, letters to the editor, and commentaries....
Influenza A virus causes influenza in birds and some mammals. It is a genus of the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses. Although the virus is uncommon several strains have been isolated from wild birds. Some can cause severe disease in domestic poultry and sometimes in humans. They are negative sense, single-stranded, segmented RNA viruses. Each subtype has mutated into a variety of strains with different pathogenic profiles. There is a vaccine for humans incase there is an avian influenza, or...
