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The agency spotlights prospective audit and feedback and preauthorization.
UNICEF said today that it is helping Samoa's government respond to a measles outbreak that has grown to more than 1,000 suspected cases, with 14 deaths in children younger than 5 years old and 1 in an adult.
Under 60% of the respondents were able to answer 7 true/false questions about antibiotics correctly.
Unvaccinated people may be 3 to 4 times more infectious than those with measles who were vaccinated.
After 3 days with no new cases, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today reported 4 more Ebola cases, raising the outbreak total to 3,296 illnesses, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 422 suspected cases. Two more people died from their infections, bringing the fatality count to 2,195.
A new report from the European Court of Auditors (ECA) argues that while some progress has been made, European Union (EU) leaders need to do more to address the health burden of antibiotic resistance.
It's approved for complicated UTIs caused by gram-negative bacteria—with a caveat.
Hot spots are mainly in southern states, all strains are circulating, and 2 new flu-related deaths have been confirmed in children.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A paper today in Clinical Infectious Diseases calls for more engagement between antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs), dentists, and orthopedic surgeons to curb unnecessary dental antibiotic prophylaxis.
Pakistan, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Angola each reported new cases of vaccine-derived polio, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and Pakistan also confirmed cases involving the wild-type virus.
Officials have reported 293 suspected cases in 6 states alongside outbreaks of the disease in goats.
The vaccine produced a strong immune response and fewer lesions than ACAM2000.
One more Ebola case was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak today, raising the overall total to 3,292 cases, which includes 118 listed as probable, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard.
Outbreak responders are still investigating 527 suspected cases. Meanwhile, the number of deaths held steady at 2,192.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new toolkit to improve antibiotic use in acute care hospitals.
Resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths a year in the United States, a new report says.
With 4 new infections confirmed today, the outbreak has grown to 3,291 cases, of which 2,192 have proved fatal.
In the latest in a small but steady stream of cases, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported one more MERS-CoV infection, which involves a 75-year-old man from Jeddah.
In an annual report for 2018, public health officials in Scotland yesterday said total antibiotic use in humans has dropped by 6.2% since 2014, and resistance has stayed mainly stable.
The findings, from Health Protection Scotland, for the first time include data on animal antimicrobial use from small-animal veterinary practices and data on environmental antimicrobial resistance.
"AMR is a looming public health threat and potential economic disaster."
