Getting sick while travelling abroad is not uncommon – in fact, Dr Richard Dawood, a travel medical specialist at Fleet ...

Oregon had just one confirmed measles case last year. But the state reported 31 confirmed infections in 2024, according to ...

A major Myrtle Beach area hospital system will no longer allow visitors under 12 years old in its buildings. Effective Tuesday, McLeod Health announced changes to its visitation policies in order to ...

About one in every 31 hospital patients will pick up an infection in the hospital, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New research shows that being prescribed an opioid for ...

CLEVELAND — Legendary Cleveland Browns QB Bernie Kosar announced Wednesday that he is back in the hospital dealing with E. coli blood poisoning and an infection less than a month after undergoing a ...

New guidance urges every nursing home to have at least one full-time infection prevention staffer Recommendations include training, vaccination and stronger health agency partnerships The change aims ...

Whether they’re there for a few days after a hospital stay, or living there long term, people in nursing homes are especially vulnerable to infections. From bacteria that have evolved to resist most ...

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on behalf of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), has released the 2025 Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposure to Human ...

Two premature babies weighing less than two pounds died last week after contracting infections officials believe came from contaminated dish soap at the Italian hospital where they were being treated.