CDC Recommends Washing Hands for 30 Minutes Before, After Each Patient Encounter
ATLANTA, GA - Stating that health care professionals can do more to prevent the spread of germs, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) recommends that health care professionals wash their hands for...
New Vaccination Campaign Seeks to Eradicate Anti-Vax Movement by 2030
WASHINGTON, DC—Jenny McCarthy, once famous for a spread of nude photos in Playboy and now for causing the spread of measles in the US, is apoplectic over a new vaccination bill that experts believe...
In Move To Further Gender Equality, HERpes To Be Renamed HIMpes
With the gender specific city code revolution ongoing in Berkeley, California, the landscape of our language is drastically changing. Physicians throughout the country are voicing concerns that certain inherently exclusionary medical terms are causing...
Infectious Disease consulted for FUO, Prescribes More Cowbell
COLUMBUS, OH – A local case has gained national attention as ground zero in the initiative for antibiotic stewardship. A 27-year-old previously healthy man was admitted to the general hospitalist service at County Hospital...
New Antimicrobial First Drug Ever with Fecal-Oral Route of Administratio
SILVER SPRING, MD—A new antimicrobial is the first drug to be approved by the FDA with a novel route of administration: the fecal-oral route. Taking advantage of a behavior—improper or no handwashing after wiping,...
Staph Aureus Bacterium Ridiculed by for Still Being Sensitive to Methicillin
A single, sad Staph Aureus bacterium has been shunned from its colony for still being sensitive to methicillin in the year 2019.
“Apparently it didn’t get the memo,” said the leader of the colony. “This...
Bugs Bugs Baby
Med student on the mic!
Let’s rock this DDx
Bugs bugs, baby
Bugs bugs, baby
All right stop
Collaborate and listen
I’m back, y’all MD’s be tripping
Time to put this fever in remission
Like a boss
Not quite, like a scientist-physician
As for...
“Study: Antibiotics improve satisfaction scores among patients with viral illnesses”
NORWALK, OH – A 10-year, multisite study was published Monday in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine (JUCM) that may change the way infectious diseases are treated in the US. The study, which was...
Impassable EMR Alert Demands Flu Shot For Deceased Patient
A best practice alert, recently programmed by a highly competent collaboration between non-clinical quality and IT personnel, popped up today when Beth, RN was trying to write a quick note about post-mortem care on...
ICU Hires Wardrobe Consultants to Help With Donning and Doffing of Contact Gowns, Compliance...
WEST JERSEY, UK - Around 90% of the patients in the ICU's at West Jersey Regional Medical Center were on contact precautions last fiscal year, but adherence to the strict isolation policy was far...