TIPS Journal Passes 4.4 Million Reads – and Gets a New Home
Since it launched on November 15, 2015 - on the eve of World Antibiotic Awareness Week - the TIPS Journal has been read more than 4.4 million times. That is 4.4 million moments where…
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NEW Master Class: The Emerging Threat of Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Hospital Water Systems
DATE: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 TIME: 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join us for the next free TIPS Master Series Master Class: The Emerging Threat of Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria in Hospital Water Systems:…
Dentists Continue Prescribing Millions of Antibiotics Despite Safety Concerns
A new investigation by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP NEWS) found that dentists continue to prescribe antibiotics at surprisingly high rates, despite years of warnings about unnecessary…
The Rising Threat of Candidozyma auris
Antimicrobial Resistance and Global Spread In recent years, infections caused by Candidozyma auris (C. auris) have increased significantly. C. auris is a drug-resistant yeast that poses a serious threat to public health, particularly in…
The New Regulatory Landscape for UV-C: What EVS and IP Leaders Need To Know
We just returned from this year’s AHE Exchange and APIC conferences—two of the largest gatherings of healthcare environmental and infection prevention professionals. While we had many inspiring meetings and conversations, we saw a troubling…
A Healthy Future for Community Pharmacy: Lessons from Point-of-Care Testing Platforms
A Healthy Future for Community Pharmacy: Lessons from Point-of-Care Testing Platforms in Canada and the United Kingdom Introduction In an era of escalating healthcare demands, community pharmacies have emerged as vital providers of accessible,…
The Value of a Biorisk Management System: Enabling Infectious Disease Laboratory Excellence on all Levels
Opinion Paper By Patty Olinger, JM & Stefan Wagener, PhD Biosafety and biosecurity are essential components of modern laboratory operations, ensuring that safety and security are seamlessly integrated into daily practices. Far from being…
A Quick Look at Hypochlorous Acid for Eco-friendly Hospital Disinfection
Safely and effectively eliminating pathogens from surfaces without causing harm to patients, health care staffs, or capital equipment can be incredibly challenging, especially with pathogens like C. difficile and C. auris. Traditional disinfecting chemicals,…
Listen Up About Listeria
A Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) outbreak in the United States tied to contaminated deli meat has killed two people and hospitalized an additional 28 from May to July 20, 2024. (1) The two deaths occurred in…
Case Fatality Rate – What Does it Mean?
In the science of epidemiology, one term that often comes up is “case fatality rate.” Most of us know that it has something to do with how many people die, but how exactly it…
UV Radiation, a source for “Superbugs”?
Recently, while reading a report on the opportunities of UV disinfection technologies and the “proclaimed” bright market future (Grand View Research, 2023), I was reminded of the fact that UV light is a source…
What’s in a Name? Canada’s new “Biocide” Regulation coming in 2024!
As 2023 has ended and we reflect on the past year, we also look at the new year for what will happen around the cleaning and disinfection side and possible new diseases. The last…
Walking in the Woods – Lyme Disease
I remember enjoying my walks in the woods in Manitoba, Canada, and never being too concerned about anything, maybe a turned-over tree, wet spots, or some bugs, but nothing serious. Lately, however, for the…
Disease ‘X’ – The Next Pandemic?
When the WHO created the term Disease X in early 2018, Covid was not yet on the horizon. However, Disease X was mentioned together with a list of “blueprint priority diseases” that were well…
The Future of Well-being is Residual: A New Era of Cleaning and Public Health
In a world where disease prevention hinges on the battle against invisible microbes, the advent of residual sanitizers to augment traditional disinfection offers a promising and powerful weapon to revolutionize our approach to public…
Is Polio Coming Back?
It was an unwelcome surprise in 2023 when the news broke that Canada had detected the polio virus in wastewater. The Canadian sample analysis was reported to the WHO in December of 2022 as…
Norovirus – The Cruise Ship Revenge Bug?
By now it has become clear that Norovirus is back and in full force on cruise ships. Based on the latest CDC data by the VSP (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023), as…
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever – An Up “Tick” in 2023
What is CCHF? Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne virus belonging to the genus Nairovirus, family Bunyaviridae (Kuehnert, 2021). The disease was first described in the 1940s during an outbreak among Soviet military recruits…
Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer and Handwashing Do Not Kill Norovirus
What Healthcare, Food Service, and the General Public Need to Know to Protect Themselves Main Article: While the world remains focused on COVID, another bug has been hitting record highs: Norovirus. According to the…
Laboratory-Acquired Infections and the Pandemic. Too Much Speculation, Not Much Action! (Part 2)
In part 1 of this 2-part article, we looked at the concerns raised by potential laboratory-acquired infections (LAIs). To reiterate, LAIs happen and will happen in the future unless we do something about it.…
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