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(MedPage Today) -- Implementing mandatory flu shot policies for healthcare workers more than doubled coverage rates, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare workers who donned gloves were less likely to wash their hands in compliance with international hygiene recommendations, according to an observational study.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Hospitals and clinics where fewer than 90% of healthcare workers get an annual flu shot should consider mandating vaccination, according to draft recommendations by a federal advisory committee.

(MedPage Today) -- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which provides guidance to the CDC, has modified its recommendations for vaccinating healthcare workers against pertussis to remove obstacles to adherence.

(MedPage Today) -- Annual influenza vaccination should be a requirement of employment for all healthcare workers, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

(MedPage Today) -- All healthcare personnel should be required to get vaccinated against influenza, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare workers should receive annual influenza vaccination as a condition of employment and professional privileges, according to an updated position paper endorsed by two major infectious disease organizations.

Healthcare workers are at risk from the chemicals widely used in hospitals and other facilities to prevent microbial colonization and infections, the CDC said.

Healthcare workers in a New York City emergency department had the highest rate of infection during the first wave of the H1N1 pandemic flu, researchers said.

Surgical masks were as effective as N95 respirators in protecting healthcare workers against 2009 H1N1 flu infections in a Singapore hospital, researchers found.