IDSA’s 10 X ’20 INITIATIVE: ID Experts Call for 10 Novel Antibacterial Drugs by 2020  11/20/2009
In its letter to President Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Reinfeldt, the Society asks for a Global Commitment to Develop New Antibacterial Drugs. IDSA seeks the creation of an Antibacterial Drug Development Work Group as a component of the new Transatlantic Task Force on antimicrobial resistance established by Obama/Reinfeldt.
 
Influenza: Seasonal and Novel A:H1N1 (swine flu)  11/20/2009

Links to the latest guidance and information.

 
Physician Groups Urge Members of the House of Representatives Physician Causus to Support H.R. 3961  11/18/2009

IDSA and other physician specialty societies urge physicians who are members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support passage of the H.R. 3961, "the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act."

 
IDSA Supports FDA’s Preliminary Approach to Breakpoints Updates in a Response to U.S. Rep. DeLauro  11/17/2009

In its letter, the Society stated that FDA is not “outsourcing” its essential function to update antibacterial breakpoints and also supported FDA’s proposal to review and sanction, if scientifically and clinically sound, the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute’s (CLSI) breakpoint recommendations.

 
2009 H1N1 Pandemic Update: Pneumococcal Vaccination Recommended to Help Prevent Secondary Infections  11/16/2009

CDC HAN Alert

 
FDA Approves Additional Vaccine for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus  11/16/2009

FDA Alert

 
FDA Expands Use of CSL Limited’s Seasonal and H1N1 Vaccines to Infants and Children  11/16/2009

FDA Alert

 
IDSA Urges Congress to Pass the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act  11/13/2009

A coalition of medical specialty societies urge the U.S. House of Representatives to follow-up its passage of health care reform legislation with a vote on H.R. 3961, "the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act," which would repeal and replace the dysfunctional formula that sets annual physician payment updates under the Medicare program.

 
ABIM Certification: What ID Subspecialists Should Know  11/12/2009

IDSA to offer resources for ABIM Maintenance of Certification.

 
MMWR Vol. 58, No. 44  11/12/2009

CDC update on influenza activity and the effectiveness of 2008-2009 trivalent influenza vaccine against 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1).

 

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