The hospital's failure to isolate patients in a timely manner "placed everyone in the hospital at immediate risk for serious ...

72,000 people die each year from hospital-associated infections. The CDC reports that number has been dropping since the COVID-19 pandemic. The post US hospitals report broad infection declines, safer ...

Infection preventionists are increasingly important — and increasingly challenged. Here’s a look at how and why.

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One person who contracted it died. The fungus is commonly found in soil in the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys, and ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice during nursing home flu and COVID outbreaks, according to a new study.