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OSHA Inspection Numbers Rebounding Close to Pre-Pandemic Level |
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Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:05 PM |
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OSHA should meet its fiscal year 2022 goal of conducting 31,400 inspections across all types of workplaces after the Covid-19 pandemic put a deep crimp in those numbers in the past two years, according to the agency’s construction directorate boss, Scott Ketcham. Read more. (Registration required) |
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NIH-funded team develops method to identify future SARS-CoV-2 mutations that could affect rapid antigen test performance |
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Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:03 PM |
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A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health has shown that commercially available rapid antigen tests can detect past and present variants of concern and has identified potential mutations that may impact test performance in the future. As new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge, concerns have been raised about the performance of rapid antigen tests. Read more. |
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Nation’s 1st monkeypox death reported in California |
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Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00 PM |
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A Los Angeles County resident has died from MPX — the nation’s first confirmed fatality linked to the disease, public health officials said Monday. Read more. |
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IZ Express #1,652: COVID-19 resources to prepare for bivalent booster doses, and more |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 03:50 PM |
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IZ Express #1,652: COVID-19 resources to prepare for bivalent booster doses, and more. Read more. |
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Forecasting COVID-19 surges based on SARS-CoV-2 mutation surveillance |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 03:48 PM |
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In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers predicted surges in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections based on alterations in SARS-CoV-2 mutations. Read more. |
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Understanding oral health in HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer in people with HIV |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 03:46 PM |
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Little is known about why people living with HIV have a much higher rate of oral human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) than the general population. And it’s not only those with advanced untreated HIV infection, known as AIDS. Read more. |
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Immunity Lessons From COVID-19: Natural Infection vs Vaccination |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 03:42 PM |
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Investigators have learned invaluable lessons from 2 and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on human immunity. Is natural infection better for long-term protection against COVID-19 or is vaccination? What does the data say? Read more. |
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Researchers Call in a Swarm of Tiny, Tooth-Scrubbing Robots |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 03:39 PM |
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The concept of a toothbrush—essentially bristles-on-a-stick—hasn’t changed much as a technology since the Babylonians and ancient Egyptians walked the earth over 5,000 years ago. Now, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania aim to transform tooth cleaning with a swarm of microscopic “robots” that can do the job of a toothbrush, dental floss, and oral rinse all in one, as the video above shows. The NIDCR-supported study, published in the journal ACS Nano, demonstrates the feasibility of the robotic system, which could one day be adapted for use in humans. Read more. |
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NIOSH Counterfeit N95 Challenge |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 12:02 PM |
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Help make counterfeit N95 respirators a thing of the past! Share your proposal for spreading the word about fake N95 respirators. Read more. |
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40% of COVID pneumonia patients still had lung problems at 1 year |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:45 AM |
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A pair of new studies describe long-COVID findings, one from Spain showing that nearly 40% of bilateral pneumonia patients had impaired lung diffusion 1 year after hospitalization, and the other from England demonstrating that double-vaccinated adults were 41% less likely than their unvaccinated peers to report symptoms 3 months or more after infection. Read more. |
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Two US cases of monkeypox-related brain inflammation raise concern |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:43 AM |
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Two US monkeypox patients developed encephalomyelitis—inflammation of the brain and spinal cord—in the week after symptom onset, one in Colorado and one in Washington, DC, suggesting neurologic complications are a potential outcome of monkeypox infections. The cases are described today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Read more. |
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Vaccines for common pathogens could help fight antimicrobial resistance |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:17 PM |
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Vaccines against common health care-associated, resistant pathogens could be a key in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, according to data presented at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress. Read more. |
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The best protection against COVID-19 could be a vaccine delivered through the nose |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:15 PM |
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A paper co-authored by a University at Buffalo scientist explains why an intranasal vaccine is key to ultimately controlling the pandemic. Read more. |
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USPSTF statement on screening for type 2 diabetes in children, adolescents |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:13 PM |
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to make a recommendation about screening for type 2 diabetes in asymptomatic children and adolescents younger than age 18. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as of 2018 approximately 23,000 children and adolescents had type 2 diabetes, and data indicate that the incidence is rising. The USPSTF routinely makes recommendations about the effectiveness of preventive care services and has not previously released a recommendation on this topic. Read more. |
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Risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease increases by 50-80% in older adults who caught COVID-19 |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:11 PM |
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Older people who were infected with COVID-19 show a substantially higher risk—as much as 50% to 80% higher than a control group—of developing Alzheimer’s disease within a year, according to a study of more than 6 million patients 65 and older. Read more. |
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So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger? |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:09 PM |
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Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he and his colleagues were already on the verge of a landmark breakthrough. Several labs around the world were hot on his team's tail. Read more. |
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First report of a SARS-CoV-2 variant with an ORF7a deletion that dominated an outbreak |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 03:06 PM |
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in Australia determined whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta-ORF7aΔ17del [open reading frame 7a protein with 17-nucleotide (nt) frameshift-inducing deletion] variant has a fitness advantage over the Delta variant lacking the ORF7aΔ17del deletion (Delta-ORF7aintact) and/or the SARS-CoV-2 lineage (A.2.2). Read more. |
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Using AI to Find New Antibiotics Still a Work in Progress |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 09:48 AM |
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Each year, more than 2.8 million people in the United States develop bacterial infections that don’t respond to treatment and sometimes turn life-threatening [1]. Their infections are antibiotic-resistant, meaning the bacteria have changed in ways that allow them to withstand our current widely used arsenal of antibiotics. It’s a serious and growing health-care problem here and around the world. To fight back, doctors desperately need new antibiotics, including novel classes of drugs that bacteria haven’t seen and developed ways to resist. Read more. |
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Cases of dental clinic visit by COVID-19 confirmed patients |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022 09:29 AM |
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This study aims to review cases of dental visits by patients who had a confirmed COVID-19 infection in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do. It analyzes the patterns of infection transmission among dental health care professionals and dental clinic visitors. Read more. |
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FDI World Dental Federation launches toolkit on how to make dentistry more sustainable |
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Monday, September 12, 2022 05:47 PM |
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Dental practices can use the tools as a guide to make their work more environmentally sustainable and by tracking progress they can achieve recognition awards for their efforts. Read more. |
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Sepsis: A Review for Infection Prevention Professionals |
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Monday, September 12, 2022 05:45 PM |
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DC’s Medical Advisor for the Healthcare Safety Network, Raymund Dantes, MD, MPH, reviews sepsis and what infection preventionists, epidemiologists, and other health care workers need to know. Read more. |
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9 monkeypox updates for dentists to know |
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Monday, September 12, 2022 05:43 PM |
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Here are nine updates about the monkeypox virus outbreak as the U.S. tops 21,000 cases... Read more. |
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This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine |
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Monday, September 12, 2022 05:41 PM |
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Long before Alexander Cohen—or anyone else—had heard of the alpha, delta, or omicron variants of covid-19, he and his graduate school advisor Pamela Bjorkman were doing the research that might soon make it possible for a single vaccine to defeat the rapidly evolving virus—along with any other covid-19 variant that might arise in the future. Read more. |
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With increased virus activity, providers urged to be alert for signs of rare polio-like syndrome in kids |
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Monday, September 12, 2022 10:49 AM |
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Pediatricians and top health officials are warning about an uptick in activity of a common virus that in rare cases can cause a polio-like syndrome in young children. Read more. |
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New York declares state of emergency over polio to boost low vaccination rates |
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Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:05 AM |
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday declared a state of emergency to boost polio vaccination rates amid more evidence the virus is spreading in communities. Read more. |
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Vibroacoustic analysis of dental air turbine noise |
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Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:03 AM |
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The objective of this study is to analyze the noise mechanism of dental air turbine handpiece with vibroacoustic simulation. Read more. |
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New York to ramp up polio vaccinations after virus found in wastewater |
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Sunday, September 11, 2022 11:01 AM |
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a disaster emergency on Friday in a bid to accelerate efforts to vaccinate residents against polio after the virus was detected in wastewater samples taken in four counties. Read more. |
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The U.S. & The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
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Saturday, September 10, 2022 11:38 AM |
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The Global Fund is an independent, multilateral, financing entity designed to raise significant new resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria in low- and middle- income countries. First proposed in 2001, the Global Fund began operations in January 2002 and receives funding from both public and private donors to finance programs developed and implemented by recipient countries. Read more. |
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Study finds Omicron hospital risk 10 times higher in unvaccinated |
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Saturday, September 10, 2022 11:36 AM |
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After the emergence of the Omicron variant, the rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States was 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated adults and 2.5 times higher in those who were vaccinated but received no booster than in booster recipients, according to a new study. Read more. |
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Evaluating the Dental Hygienists' Exposure to the Risk of Musculoskeletal Disorders |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 02:10 PM |
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he aim of the study was to evaluate dental hygienists' exposure to the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), by the worksheets compatible with the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA). Read more. |
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HAN - Severe Respiratory Illnesses Associated with Rhinoviruses and/or Enteroviruses Including EV-D68 – Multistate, 2022 |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 02:08 PM |
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Healthcare providers and hospitals in several regions of the United States notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during August 2022 about increases in pediatric hospitalizations in patients with severe respiratory illness who also tested positive for rhinovirus (RV) and/or enterovirus (EV). Read more. |
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Checklists as effective, important as ever |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 02:06 PM |
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Doctors introduced the concept of checklists to the healthcare setting to prevent errors, especially for staff that are often fatigued and distracted. Checklists now play a large part in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), Kay Temple wrote in an Infection Control Today article. Read more. |
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How Healthcare Cyberattacks Can Impact Patient Safety, Care Delivery |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 02:04 PM |
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Surveyed healthcare security professionals reported adverse patient safety effects resulting from healthcare cyberattacks, including a hike in mortality rates and longer hospital stays. Read more. |
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MMWR Weekly - September 9, 2022 |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 11:23 AM |
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Weekly / Vol. 71 / No. 36. Read more. |
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Safety of COVID-19 vaccine delivery by dentists: An observational cohort study |
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Friday, September 09, 2022 11:21 AM |
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Although many coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine injections have been administered worldwide, the safety of this practice remains unclear. This study aimed to compare the rates of complications associated with COVID-19 vaccines administered by dentists with those of vaccines administered by nurses. This study aimed to evaluate the safety of a vaccination program delivered by dentists. Read more. |
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