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CDC Calls Back Staff To Handle Salmonella Outbreak
An outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg has spread to 18 states and has sickened nearly 300, prompting the return of some 30 CDC staffers furloughed during the government shutdown to work on the case. Read More »
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CDC Calls Out Antibiotic Prescribing Problems
In a major report today that looked at antibiotic usage, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said some clinicians in similar hospital units prescribe triple the amounts, with some making the types of errors that fuel drug-resistance problems that put many more patients at risk. Read More »
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CDC on EHR Errors: Enough's Enough
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not routinely get involved in telling hospitals how to run operations, but with increasing reports of EHR deployment problems, the Atlanta-based operation now sees the need to act.
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CDC Threat Report: Yes, Agricultural Antibiotics Play A Role In Drug Resistance
The grave assessment on the advance of drug resistance, released Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contained some important observations about the relationship between antibiotic use in agriculture and resistant infections in humans. [...] Read More »
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CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be In A Post-Antibiotic Era’
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps that need to be taken to roll back the trend. Read More »
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CDC Unable To Conduct Lab, Detection Work On Salmonella Outbreak
For all those Americans crossing fingers that no communicable disease, influenza or foodborne illness outbreaks would happen during the government shutdown, exactly that has occurred. Read More »
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CDC Urges Increased Prevention, Surveillance Of Superbugs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking hospitals and public health agencies to increase their efforts to track, isolate and hopefully slow the growth of an emerging variety of highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Read More »
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CDC's Virtual Events Program Created By The Public Sector, For The Public Sector
Declines in budgets across the public health community were just one reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began looking at innovative approaches for employees and partners to collaborate online. Read More »
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CDC: Action Needed Now To Halt Spread Of Deadly Bacteria
Data show more inpatients suffering infections from bacteria resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics Read More »
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CDC: Foodborne Illness In The U.S. Not Getting Better
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released their annual survey of foodborne illnesses in the United States, and the news is, well, not great. In the words of the press announcement they sent out to announce the data release: “limited progress.” Read More »
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CDC: Shutdown Strains Foodborne Illness Tracking
As we Tuesday, the government shutdown is pushing the nation's food safety system to its limits. For instance, there is normally a team of eight people overseeing the critical foodborne illness tracking database . This team identifies clusters of sickness linked to potentially dangerous strains of pathogens such as E. coli or salmonella... Read More »
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CDC: Some Hospitals Need Assistance Using Antibiotics Properly (And The New Federal Budget May Help)
[...] In an analysis of several sets of hospital data, gathered by the agency and also purchased from independent databases, the CDC said it found that more than 37 percent of prescriptions written in hospitals involved some sort of error or poor practice, increasing the risk of serious infections or antibiotic resistance. Read More »
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CDC: Why Is Lyme Disease Activity So Much Higher Than Predicted?
Sunday night’s conference on Lyme and other tick-borne diseases released some new data from the CDC on the number of people affected each year by Lyme disease. Namely, it pointed to a major difference in the recorded number of people affected by the disease and the actual number... Read More »
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CDISC Express Mentioned On Life Science Leader
CDISC Express, Clinovo's open source CDISC SDTM mapping tool, was mentioned on www.lifescienceleader.com. Life Science Reader is a must-read magazine and website for the life science and clinical trial industry. It features insightful articles to pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and contract operations professionals. Read More »
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Celebrating 15 Years Of A Better Web
On March 31, Mozilla turned 15 years old. In these years, something radical has happened: the Web has become an everyday presence in the lives of billions of people. It’s made their lives better. Mozilla was a big part of this. Read More »
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