CDPH Releases New Reports on Healthcare-Associated Infections and Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Rates
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Sacramento, California - The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today released the “Healthcare-Associated Infections in California Hospitals Annual Report for January to December 2014” and “Influenza Vaccination among Healthcare personnel in California Hospitals for the 2014-15 Influenza Season.” Using data from the infections report, CDPH also updated its interactive map with data for individual hospitals. The reports contain 2014 data from 392 licensed general acute care hospitals, representing 419 hospital campuses.
Alcohol Also Damages the Liver by Allowing Bacteria to Infiltrate
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San Diego, California - Alcohol itself can directly damage liver cells. Now researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report evidence that alcohol is also harmful to the liver for a second reason - it allows gut bacteria to migrate to the liver, promoting alcohol-induced liver disease. The study, conducted in mice and in laboratory samples, is published February 10 in Cell Host & Microbe.
FDA seeks $5.1 billion total for FY 2017, including funds to implement food safety law, improve medical product safety and quality
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a total budget of $5.1 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2017 budget – an eight percent increase over the enacted budget for FY 2016. The overall request includes a net increase of $14.6 million in budget authority and $268.7 million in user fees for initiatives tied to several key areas, including the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA) and efforts to improve medical product safety and quality.
Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy
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Los Angeles, California - Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s height and weight, has effectively become a proxy for whether a person is considered healthy. Many U.S. companies use their employees’ BMIs as a factor in determining workers’ health care costs. And people with higher BMIs could soon have to pay higher health insurance premiums, if a rule proposed in April by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is adopted.
Standard method for deriving stem cells may be better for use in regenerative medicine
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Los Angeles, California - Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered an important naturally occurring process in the developing human embryo that can be lost when embryonic stem cells are derived in the lab.
A ‘Nudge’ Reduces Doctors’ Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescription, Study Finds
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Los Angeles, California - Behavioral interventions that appealed to doctors’ competitive spirits and desire to strengthen their reputations motivated them to significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, a new study shows.
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