Pediatrics
Peer milk-sharing participants generally keep it clean
Mothers who want the benefits of breast milk for their babies but can't produce the substance often turn to milk-sharing networks.
Feb 17, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dirty laundry may cause environmental contamination
A new paper published in FEMS Microbiology Letters, resulting from an investigation of a laundry facility that services several Seattle-area hospitals, suggests that soiled clinical linens may be a source of surface Clostridium ...
Nov 7, 2016
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Surgery
Complete sanitation of robotic surgical instruments virtually impossible
It is virtually impossible to remove all contamination from robotic surgical instruments, even after multiple cleanings, according to a study published today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the ...
Oct 31, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Contaminated machines in ORs linked to patient infections
Health officials are warning that small outbreaks of infections spread by contaminated operating room machinery during open-heart surgery could be more widespread than first thought.
Oct 13, 2016
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Health
Mechanism identified through which lead may harm neural cells, children's neurodevelopment
Researchers have identified a potential molecular mechanism through which lead, a pervasive environmental toxin, may harm neural stem cells and neurodevelopment in children. The study, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...
Aug 26, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Analysis finds control of snail hosts critical to schistosomiasis elimination
Schistosomiasis (also known as snail fever) affects more than 250 million people worldwide. Individuals become infected after skin contact with the schistosome parasite in contaminated water, and, without treatment, experience ...
Jul 21, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Is swimming safe in areas with the freshwater 'brain-eating' amoeba?
(HealthDay)—The headlines are terrifying, and the story details are even worse as you read about a child who goes for a swim in a lake or river and then falls prey to a "brain-eating amoeba."
Jul 14, 2016
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Health
Yuck factor may boost hand hygiene compliance
The yuck factor may be an effective tool for boosting hand hygiene compliance among health care workers, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Jun 9, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Bottled water infects over 4,000 people in Spain with norovirus
More than 4,000 people fell ill with norovirus in northeastern Spain after drinking bottled spring water contaminated with human faecal matter, local health officials said Monday.
Apr 25, 2016
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Health
Millions drinking arsenic-laced water in Bangladesh: HRW (Update)
Some 20 million poor Bangladeshis are still drinking water contaminated with arsenic, two decades after the potentially deadly toxin was discovered in the supply, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Apr 6, 2016
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