A report by a senior infection prevention analyst at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides five basic infection control best practices for ASCs. The report, “Strategies to Fully Implement ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is the latest virus outbreak promoting a World Health Organization emergency meeting. Large numbers of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

Infection control in intensive care units (ICUs) remains a critical component of modern healthcare, particularly given the high-risk environments where the most vulnerable patients are treated. The ...

The Department of Health and Human Services released a report in January of this year showing that more than 1,000 long-term care facilities in the United States had COVID-19 infection rates of 75% or ...

A new study conducted by clinician-scientists at a dozen neonatal intensive care units, or NICUs, across North America found ...

Experts from five national medical groups partnered to revise infection prevention strategies in acute care settings, which were published July 11 in the Journal of Infection Control and Hospital ...

In 2020, there has been an immense focus on infection control of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. However, over the past decade, there has been a growing ...

It’s been more than 150 years since Ignaz Semmelweis, the so-called “father of hand hygiene,” highlighted the benefits of handwashing among healthcare workers, and yet there’s still room for ...

Nursing home owners and operators must stop viewing infection prevention as an add-on service and invest in related training resources and the time needed to develop effective nursing home programs, a ...

Technologies and materials expected to significantly reduce incidence of infection LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Louisville Hospital’s Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, in ...