Hospitals nationwide continue to see a rise in HAIs, and technologies to aid infection control are increasingly coming on scene to help, but one nurse says that a combination of going “back to basics” along with these new innovations may be the best wa…
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is creating a new department to study how infectious disease agents interact with human hosts.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is creating a new department to study how infectious disease agents interact with human hosts.
A 53-year-old Florida man was hospitalized after a family member’s bite resulted in the flesh-eating bacteria necrotizing fasciitis, NBC News reported June 9.
More than 70 employees at Kaiser Zion Medical Center in San Diego have signed a petition for the facility to suspend surgeries over concerns of potential contamination of surgical trays, according to a June 6 report from The San Diego Union Tribune.&nb…
Harvard researchers may have debunked a theory about a drug-resistant pathogen linked to severe lung infections, which was previously thought to spread person-to-person.
Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT and Ontario, Canada-based McMaster University researchers have found a new antibiotic treatment that can kill a common bacteria in hospital infections thanks to machine learning.
Coalinga (Calif.) State Hospital recently informed patients of possible exposure to hepatitis C and HIV through the hospital’s pain clinic, radio station KVPR reported May 25.
Nurses at the bedside play a key role in prevention of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile in patients, a new study has found.
A Maine resident died from Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, the state’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said May 17.
