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Philadelphia blames measles outbreak on people declining vaccines, failing to quarantine
Tuesday, January 09, 2024 06:27 PM
The city of Philadelphia is blaming the recent measles outbreak on people declining to get vaccinated and failing to follow quarantine recommendations, after its Department of Public Health confirmed at least four cases. Read more.
 
Fatal TB outbreak shows importance of screening tissue transplants
Tuesday, January 09, 2024 06:25 PM
Today a new study published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) linked to contaminated bone allografts (tissue transplant) from the same donor. Read more. 
 
US sees COVID resurgence as JN.1 variant becomes dominant
Tuesday, January 09, 2024 06:22 PM
The U.S. is riding another wave of rising COVID-19 infections, as holiday gatherings and a new variant are driving increased transmission. Read more. 
 
The gum disease-dementia connection
Monday, January 08, 2024 08:30 PM
Who knew dental hygienists are also brain health hygienists? We did! The Queen of Dental Hygiene, Barbara Tritz, explains how caring for the gums can reduce the risk of dementia. Read more. 
 
Few Children With SARS-CoV-2 Develop Post-COVID-19 Condition
Monday, January 08, 2024 08:26 PM
More children with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests have post-COVID-19 condition, but no significant difference seen in QoL for those with positive, negative tests. Read more.
 
Dear Patient: You can die from cavities
Monday, January 08, 2024 08:23 PM
Dental care is not an afterthought, and ignoring dental issues or toughing them out can have dire consequences. Do your patients understand what they are? Read more. 
 
Study Investigates Role of Experiential Service Learning in Dental Education
Monday, January 08, 2024 03:59 PM
A recent study explored the use of experiential service learning — an approach that encourages students to apply their knowledge base as well as critical thinking to effectively manage a community health problem — in dental education, focusing on a project that integrates theoretical learning, dental epidemiological investigations, data analysis, creation of scientific oral health education materials, and actual oral health education. Read more. 
 
Bottled water can contain hundreds of thousands of previously uncounted tiny plastic bits, study finds
Monday, January 08, 2024 03:18 PM
In recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth, from polar ice to soil, drinking water and food. Formed when plastics break down into progressively smaller bits, these particles are being consumed by humans and other creatures, with unknown potential health and ecosystem effects. Read more.
 
NYC Moves Closer to Eliminating Viral Hepatitis as a Public Health Threat
Sunday, January 07, 2024 02:01 PM
There were declines in newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis C as well as hepatitis A between 2021 and 2022 while newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis B in New York City rose in 2022. Read more. 
 
A third in Hong Kong may have had COVID amid Omicron, most with no symptoms
Sunday, January 07, 2024 01:54 PM
Hong Kong researchers estimate that 33.6% of the adult population had COVID-19 in 2022, 72.1% with no symptoms, according to an analysis published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Read more. 
 
WVU School of Dentistry dean highlights needs for modernization in dental training
Sunday, January 07, 2024 01:03 PM
The dean of the West Virginia University School of Dentistry sees continual investments in innovation within dental education as key to serving the oral health care needs of West Virginia residents, a major contributor to overall health. Read more.
 
RSV Vaccines Would Greatly Reduce Illness if Implemented Like Flu Shots
Sunday, January 07, 2024 01:00 PM
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines recently approved for people 60 and older would dramatically reduce the disease’s significant burden of illness and death in the United States if they were widely adopted like annual influenza vaccines, a new study has found. Read more.
 
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: What can we do better?
Sunday, January 07, 2024 12:31 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for all Americans, with unprecedented morbidity and mortality, economic hardship and social stressors. Read more. 
 
What the Pandemic Is Teaching Us About the Immune System
Saturday, January 06, 2024 12:29 PM
Four years after the first cases of an unusual pneumonia appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, nearly 7 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19, and some 65 million more continue to struggle with the infection’s mystifying aftermath — a poorly understood syndrome known as long COVID. Read more. 
 
Answering the most-asked questions from social media: Hand hygiene
Saturday, January 06, 2024 12:26 PM
This is the third in a series of articles in which we will bring in an expert to address some of the misinformation we have read in various social media posts and groups. You can see the previous two installments at the bottom of this article. Read more.
 
Spit Happens - The Surprising Importance of Saliva
Saturday, January 06, 2024 12:24 PM
Do you have a favorite food that makes your mouth water? The liquid that fills your mouth is called saliva. This remarkable fluid helps you digest food and stay healthy. Read more.
 
Attitudes Towards Vaccines Demonstrate More Hesitancy for COVID-19 vs Influenza Immunizations
Saturday, January 06, 2024 12:21 PM
In a new survey, respondents said both vaccines were efficacious, but a higher share said influenza vaccines were very safe compared to COVID-19 vaccines. This demonstrates a public health concern considering the higher incidence rates and hospitalizations of COVID-19 over the flu, and the possibility of low vaccine intakes. Read more.
 
Association of oral microbiome with oral human papillomavirus infection: a population study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009-2012
Saturday, January 06, 2024 11:30 AM
Oral human papillomavirus(HPV) infection and the oral microbiome are associated with oropharyngeal cancer. However, population-based data on the association of oral microbiome with oral HPV infection are limited. Read more. 
 
Patient receptivity to receiving vaccinations in the dental clinic at a rural federally qualified health center
Friday, January 05, 2024 04:19 PM
More than 28 million people in the United States visited their dentists but not a physician in 2018, yet only a few states allow dentists to administer vaccines to patients, and those vaccines are limited to influenza, COVID-19, and human papillomavirus. Read more.
 
Trajectories of opioid prescribing by general dentists, specialists, and oral and maxillofacial surgeons in the United States, 2015-2019
Friday, January 05, 2024 04:11 PM
Despite decreases in opioid prescribing from 2016 through 2019, some dentists (general, specialists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons) in the United States continue to prescribe opioids at high rates. The authors’ objective was to define dentists’ trajectories of opioid prescribing. Read more.
 
Mental Health Spotlight: Turning Dental Hygienists’ New Year’s Resolutions into Attainable Goals
Friday, January 05, 2024 04:05 PM
As dental professionals, we are primed for burnout. Hectic schedules, demanding interpersonal interactions, and musculoskeletal contortions in the op can leave us empty and worn out. Self-care is an essential part of our lives as clinicians. Our New Year’s goals are often focused on getting ourselves in a healthier place to overcome burnout. Read more. 
 
MMWR Weekly - January 5, 2024
Friday, January 05, 2024 11:03 AM
Weekly / Vol. 72 / No. 52-53. Read more. 
 
New Degree Created in Dental Hygiene with Concentration in Dental Science from NYU Dentistry
Friday, January 05, 2024 10:59 AM
NYU College of Dentistry is introducing a bachelor of science (BS) in dental hygiene with a new concentration in dental science, preparing students for careers as healthcare providers and providing a pathway for those interested in applying to dental school or other graduate health programs. Read more. 
 
MMWR - Second Nationwide Tuberculosis Outbreak Caused by Bone Allografts Containing Live Cells — United States, 2023
Thursday, January 04, 2024 05:34 PM
Tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks associated with tissue transplantation are rare; one outbreak involving 113 patients occurred after surgical implantation of contaminated bone allografts in 2021. Read more. 
 
Sick with COVID and the flu: Double infections hit hard
Thursday, January 04, 2024 10:18 AM
California’s hospitals are getting busier with more COVID-19 and flu patients, some of whom are suffering from both viruses at the same time. Read more.
 
Clinicians warn of infection risks tied to med spas
Wednesday, January 03, 2024 11:03 AM
Lack of oversight and increasing reports of infection are causing physicians to sound alarm bells about risks related to medical spas. Read more. 
 
COVID-19 vs Seasonal Influenza: A Comparative Analysis Reveals Alarming Trends
Wednesday, January 03, 2024 11:00 AM
Results of a study by Yan Xie and colleagues highlight the severe impact of COVID-19, with higher death rates, increased risks of long-term complications, and greater infectivity compared to seasonal influenza. Read more. 
 
2023 NIH Research Highlights - Human Health Advances
Tuesday, January 02, 2024 04:18 PM
With NIH support, scientists across the United States and around the world conduct wide-ranging research to discover ways to enhance health, lengthen life and reduce illness and disability. Groundbreaking NIH-funded research often receives top scientific honors. In 2023, these honors included two NIH-supported scientists who received Nobel Prizes. Here’s just a small sample of the NIH-supported research accomplishments in 2023. Also see this year's Promising Medical Findings and Basic Research Insights. Read more. 
 
Sick with COVID and the flu: Double infections hit California hard
Tuesday, January 02, 2024 01:18 PM
California’s hospitals are getting busier with more COVID-19 and flu patients, some of whom are suffering from both viruses at the same time. Read more.
 
Mourning the loss of former NIDCR Director Hal Slavkin, D.D.S.
Tuesday, January 02, 2024 12:58 PM
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Harold C. Slavkin, D.D.S. Hal was the sixth director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), serving from 1995-2000. Hal died on December 22 at his home in California; he was 85. Read more.
 
Happy New Year From Infection Control Today!
Tuesday, January 02, 2024 12:06 PM
As we usher in a brand new year, the team at Infection Control Today® (ICT®) would like to extend our warmest wishes to all our readers and partners. We hope this year brings health, happiness, and success to each and every one of you. With the dawn of 2024, it's an opportune time to not only reflect on the past but also to set our sights on the future. To that end, we're excited to share some of our professional resolutions for the year ahead. Read more. 
 
Oshkosh wastewater concentration of SARS-CoV-2 is 'very high.' What this means for COVID spread.
Tuesday, January 02, 2024 12:02 PM
Oshkosh’s wastewater concentration of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been categorized as “very high” and health officials are only expecting these numbers to trend upward. Read more.
 
Opinion: Measles is back. Coloradans should be concerned.
Monday, January 01, 2024 12:42 PM
It was only a matter of time. As pediatricians, we are concerned by the first measles case in Colorado since 2019. We have anxiously watched for three years as measles vaccination rates have fallen in our state while cases have risen around the world. Read more. 
 
Study implicates hospital sinks as important source of resistant pathogen transmission
Monday, January 01, 2024 12:40 PM
Hospital sinks contaminated with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are a significant source of transmission to patients, Israeli researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Read more. 
 
2023: The Year in Infectious Disease
Monday, January 01, 2024 12:28 PM
New and novel antimicrobials remain at a crossroads as the path to development and economic viability continue to be serious challenges. Our Editor-in-Chief weighs in on this topic and some of the other most significant ones from this past year. Read more. 
 
March 10-16, 2024 is Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW)
Sunday, December 31, 2023 01:05 PM
In recognition, the Center for Patient Safety is encouraging the acknowledgment and celebration of efforts to improve safe care throughout healthcare. We invite you to celebrate and raise awareness! Read more. 
 
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