Author – Ramanan Laxminarayan, Ph.D., director of Extending the Cure (ETC) Patients in the United States are among the most intensive users of antibiotics in the world, but you may be surprised to learn that overall per capita outpatient antibiotic p…
American Indian and Alaska Native adults are twice as likely to have diagnosed type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. Rates of diagnosed diabetes among American Indians and Alaska Natives younger than 35 doubled from 1994–2004.
Author – Dr. Trivedi, California Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Initiative, California Department of Public Health. In February 2010, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) launched the country’s first statewide initiative to promote …
AMDA – Dedicated to Long Term Care Many of us have or will have loved ones in long term care facilities. These healthcare settings are critical to providing healthcare and everyday assistance to people with chronic illnesses or disabilities, who othe…
Author – David P. Calfee, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell in New York City The GNYHA, UHF, and NYSDOH Antimicrobi…
Author — Nimalie Stone, M.D. Medical Epidemiologist CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion With increasing drug-resistant bacteria and complicating conditions from antibiotic use like diarrhea from C. difficile on the rise, we must look at …
Author – Steve Solomon, MD Director of the Office of Antimicrobial Resistance, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Office of Infectious Diseases, CDC. Antimicrobial resistance is a …
A cruise can be a fun, relaxing way to spend a vacation, but any vacation spent with the flu is no vacation at all. Since a large number of people can come into close contact with one another on cruise ships, respiratory viruses, including flu, have th…
Author: Alice Guh, CDC medical officer and co-lead of Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients initiative As clinicians, we know that the nearly one million patients who receive outpatient cancer treatment each year are at risk for serious infections t…
Heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). A variety of health disparities affect AI/AN communities, including, disproportionately high prevalence for diabetes, suicide, teenage pregnancy, …