Why Antibiotics are not the Answer to your Cold or Flu
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Colds and flu are viral infections. If you happen to be very unlucky and get the flu, take a break, rest up, and go...
Zika Cases Confirmed in North America: Time to Panic?
Updated: Tuesday February 2, 2016
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Background: Vector-borne diseases are defined primarily by how they are spread. While many insects and arachnids can spread a diverse...
Fighting Infections in a Microbial World
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Bacteria can be found everywhere, including in the human body where it plays an important role in our health. Your bacterial ecosystem is referred...
The Suspicion of Sepsis
Sepsis has become the number one cause of hospital deaths in USA with 258,000 fatalities annually at a cost of over US$ 20 billion...
Infection Prevention In Challenging Environments
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In non-hospital settings, health care professionals face the challenge of a constantly evolving environment. The specialists at Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders are deployed...
Touchscreens: The Mosquito of the Digital Age
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The widespread and rapidly growing automation and digitization of our world has led to the installation of billions of touchscreens, both in our personal...
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Hand Hygiene at Home and School
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Infectious diseases continue to be a health challenge and economic burden within our communities. Though effective hand hygiene education is critical, there has been...
Medical Laboratory Professionals SAVE LIVES every day, but do you know who we are?
Editorial by Rodney E. Rohde, Ph.D
April 24, 2016 marks the kick-off of National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (#MLPW #LabWeek #Lab4Life). But, I often wonder if...
Global Antibiotic Awareness Week
Antibiotics are sometimes revered as one of humankind’s greatest discoveries. Thanks to antibiotics, the lives of billions of people have been saved. The ubiquity of...