August 14th 2024
In part 2 of this interview with Deborah Birx, MD, she highlights that ActivePure Technology provides a continuous decontamination solution that operates independently of manual intervention to reduce HAIs.
Tackling Inequities in IBD: Inclusive Solutions for Elevated Patient Care
October 26, 2024
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Advances in TNBC: Communicating with Your Patients About Clinical Trial Awareness and Treatment Concerns to Improve Clinical Outcomes
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease — Individualizing Vaccine Recommendations in Adolescent Populations
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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Community Oncology Connections™: Overcoming Barriers to Testing, Trial Access, and Equitable Care in Cancer
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Bridging the Gap in Multiple Sclerosis – A Focus on Clinical and Healthcare Disparities in Black Patients
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Overcoming Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Outcomes and Clinical Trials: How We are Moving Care Forward Today
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Fighting Disparities and Saving Lives: An Exploration of Challenges and Solutions in Cancer Care
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Advances in™ Atopic Dermatitis: Addressing Unmet Needs in Patients With Skin of Color
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FDA Issues a CRL for Venatorx Pharmaceuticals’ Antibiotic for Treatment of Complicated UTI
February 23rd 2024The federal agency did not request further trials for the investigational therapy, cefepime-taniborbactam, but wanted more information about its chemistry, manufacturing, and controls.
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2 Antibiotics Show Similar Efficacy for Healthcare-Associated Infection
September 27th 2023Patients treated with oral metronidazole experienced significantly more first-line drug changes compared to those on fidaxomicin; although there were no significant differences observed in the global or clinical cure rate between the 2 treatments.
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Updated Guidelines Look to Reduce Hospital-Acquired MRSA
July 1st 2023Five organizations have updated the 2014 compendium, "Strategies to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission and Infection in Acute Care Hospitals." In doing so, they have elevated antimicrobial stewardship from an “additional practice” to an “essential practice.”
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WHO Declares End of COVID-19 Global Health Emergency, Walensky to Step Down as CDC Director
May 5th 2023On the same day WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced she will be stepping down at the end of June.
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COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in the US: Have Disparities Really Decreased?
May 2nd 2023Decreased racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortalities between the first and Omicron waves of the pandemic could be explained by increased deaths in non-Hispanic White adults and changes in the geographic spread of the pandemic.
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COVID-19 Patients Are More Susceptible to Health Care-Associated Infections
May 1st 2023Rates of central line–associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia all increased in hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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