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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology elected new officers, directors and members of the nominating and awards committee.

The Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Ocular Microorganisms study has been published in JAMA.

Analysts gave Tenet shares an average recommendation of "buy," according to Dakota Financial News.

The FDA recently approved Imlygic, a virus that attacks cancer cells, according to CBS News.

Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Leapfrog Group gave Rush University Medical Center in Chicago an “A” rating for patient safety, according to News-Medical.

Myreen Tomas, MD, and a team of Cleveland reserachers conducted a study that revealed healthcare providers contaminate their skin or clothing 46 percent of the time when shedding their personal protective equipment, according to The Hill.

The Leapfrog Group, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, named Colorado hospitals among the safest facilities in the nation, according to the Denver Business Journal.

The American Medical Association partnered with MedStar Health's National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare to create a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Frame in an effort to promote transparency about how EHRs are designed and user-tested, according to HIT…

For ambulatory surgery centers, infection control is a primary focus.

Affinivax, a biotechnology company, is collaborating with Nosocomial Vaccine Corporation, established by ClearPath and Astellas Pharma, to develop vaccines that prevent healthcare-associated infections, also known as bacterial nosocomial infections.