Challenging the process for changing a dressing
By James Scarfone
The problems and challenges confronting us in healthcare today are too big and too complex for top-down solutions. We need the collective...
SickKids-led research team uncovers a drug that disarms life-threatening bacteria
By Vanessa Blanchard
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is an antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ that causes life-threatening diarrhea and colitis (inflammation of...
First hospital in Canada to be equipped with state-of-the-art, self-sanitizing technology
By Lisa van Kolfschoten
Five private inpatient rooms at the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital (CGMH)...
Creating a safer, greener and cleaner hospital
By
Andrew Aggerholm
Markham Stouffville Hospital’s (MSH) Infection
Prevention and Control Department (IPAC) and Corporate Services Department are
teaming up to create...
Leveraging technology to improve outbreak notifications
By Emily Dawson
Historically, when an
outbreak was declared at Providence Healthcare’s long-term care home,
staff...
Face-to-face with infection prevention and control
By Michael Oreskovich
Infections are the most common kind of complication for hospitalized patients, responsible for thousands of deaths each year according to the Public...
Infection prevention is in your hands
Healthcare-associated infections: a worldwide epidemic
By Anne MacLaurin
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), or infections acquired in healthcare settings, are the most frequent adverse event in healthcare delivery...
Four-legged infection fighter hits the road to detect C. difficile
Vancouver Coastal Health’s four-legged infection fighter is taking a road-trip to showcase his C. difficile detection abilities. Angus, a three-year-old English springer spaniel, and...
The need for improved Lyme literacy
As Lyme disease makes inroads across Canada, activists say the medical community needs to better informed
By Diana Swift
It may be September, but that doesn’t...
Math shows how human behaviour spreads infectious diseases
Mathematics can help public health workers better understand and influence human behaviours that lead to the spread of infectious disease, according to a study...
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