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Fri Apr 17

• Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy: Registration for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in SF 9/12 - 9/15 opens today

Wed Nov 5

• Pediatric Waiting Rooms: A Haven for Germs: A recent study presented at a joint meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America confirmed what parents have long suspected?toys in the pediatrician?s waiting room could be exposing children to cold viruses. One in five of the toys sampled tested positive for rhinoviruses or influenza B, according to the researchers. And even more concerning is that cleaning the toys provided only modest germ-killing effect.

Thu Oct 30

• Staph germs harder than ever to treat: Drug-resistant staph bacteria picked up in ordinary community settings are increasingly acquiring "superbug " powers and causing far more serious illnesses than they have in the past, doctors reported Monday.

Wed Oct 29

• Privacy curtains in hospitals could be aiding transmission of bacteria: study: The curtains that hang between patient beds in hospitals can become contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria and may be playing a role in the spread of these germs in hospitals, a new study suggests. Researchers at Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Cen

Mon Oct 27

• Study Calls For Earlier AIDS Treatment: HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend, according to a new study presented by physician and HIV/AIDS specialist Mari Kitahata of the University of Washington in Seattle. The study that involved more than 8,000 HIV patients suggests doctors should rethink the standard practice of HIV treatment.
• Rotavirus vaccines significantly reduces hospitalizatio ns in U.S.: According to a report prepared by researchers, when children with rotavirus infection are administered (orally) diarrhea vaccines a remarkable improvement in their health can be seen. When this was done, lesser hospitalizatio ns by up to 70 percent were reported in some areas of the United States which also prevented unnecessary spending of money.
• Experimental antibiotics help against "superbug": Two experimental antibiotics appear to work safely against an increasingly common and dangerous form of infection called methicillin-re sistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, researchers said on Sunday. Doctors are clamoring for drugs that can fight the so-called superbug infection, which kills an estimated 19,000 people a year in the United States alone.
• New, more efficient anti-AIDS drug for untreated patients: Medical researchers on Sunday unveiled clinical trials of new anti-AIDS drug that better controls the spread of the deadly virus among previously untreated patients. Developed by US pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co, Isentress is the first of a new type of anti-AIDS medication called HIV integrase inhibitor, based on the enzyme that controls HIV virus reproduction.

Fri Oct 24

• Scientists to speak on infectious disease topics at ICAAC/IDSA 2008: Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., will speak during the opening session of ICAAC/IDSA 2008, a joint meeting of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, in Washington, DC.
• Sharpies don't spread germs, people do: Anyone who has had surgery or watched those medical reality shows knows that before patients go under the knife, they?re often written on first with a marker to denote where the surgeon will cut. Bodies end up looking like a cross between a bull's-ey e and a topographical map.

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