Diseases

04/22/2013

New report informs Europe’s policymakers on diagnosis and management of CDI

Urgent action is needed to improve the diagnosis and management of CDI, which is the main cause of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) diarrhoea in industrialised countries. In a …

03/01/2013

The nose knows

Cliff, a two-year-old beagle, has recently demonstrated his talent for detecting Clostridium difficile according to doctors at the Vrije University Medical Centre (VUMC) in …

02/26/2013

Adoption of HIV nucleic acid testing and automation to spur market growth

Over 32% of HIV+ people in Europe remain undiagnosed. This large untapped pool and the development of novel nucleic acid test (NAT) and non-NAT technology based platforms offers …

02/01/2013

Simpler risk scoring

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) supports physicians in vital treatment decisions. …

01/22/2013

MRSA, C Difficile, staphylococcus

A recent webinar, hosted by the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, featured doctors Duane Newton of the University of Michigan and Susan Novak-Weekly of Kaiser Permanente. …

01/17/2013

Adverse consequences are clinical as well as economic

No one wants to be admitted to a hospital because the food is good. Yet, following discharge, one of the first things the patient is asked is, ‘How was the food?’ as if the …

01/14/2013

Mass spectrometry

‘Mass spectrometry has developed into a successful routine procedure,’ according to Dr Christoph Seger (Univ. Doz.), technical head of the Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography …

01/09/2013

Measles and whooping cough cases are on the rise

When country doctor Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with pus from a cowpox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand, little did he know that he had started a long lasting …

11/05/2012

Infections in ICUs

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11/05/2012

Today’s antibiotics misuse threatens future patients

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11/05/2012

C. difficile test guidelines are being ignored

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11/05/2012

TB and HIV disregard national borders

The World Congress for Biomedical Laboratory Science (IFBLS 2012) in Berlin yet again emphasised that infections require safe and low-cost diagnostics worldwide …

10/10/2012

Nobel Prize awarded to Robert Koch Foundation Laureate

The Robert Koch Foundation congratulates Professor Shinya Yamanaka, the 2008 Robert Koch Award laureate, on being awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The …

07/30/2012

MRSA cases doubled in five years

Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) doubled at academic medical centers in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, according to a report published in …

07/30/2012

Hard facts on European drug use

Surveys of drug use form an important basis for the development of effective drug policies, and also for measuring the effectiveness of existing policies. For the first time in …

07/30/2012

Deadly 2011 E. coli Strain Decoded

The secret to the deadly 2011 E. coli outbreak in Germany has been decoded, thanks to research conducted at Michigan State University. …

07/12/2012

Onset of Type 1 diabetes prevented in mice

Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institutet managed to prevent onset of Type 1 diabetes in mice genetically susceptible to the disease by injecting them with specifically …

07/10/2012

The first International Centre of Excellence in Infection Prevention

Hospital infection control specialists from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa are travelling to Liverpool to learn how an English hospital Trust has become a world leader …

07/10/2012

The contact killer

Bacteria, viruses and fungi are killed on copper surfaces within seconds. This powerful germicidal effect, termed ‘contact killing’, is increasingly noted by hospitals due to …

07/10/2012

System identifies more pathogens and antimicrobial resistances than any other

By integrating all necessary pre-analytical and analytical steps into one solution, the recently CE-marked Unyvero system, which is now commercially available in Europe, provides …