Infection Control

At Northwell Health, leaders don't discount the rare causes or sources of hospital-acquired infections.

After dozens of hospitals ended their masking policies, organizations are working to promote masking in healthcare again.

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis created a breath test that can identify people with COVID-19 infections in less than a minute. 

An employee at Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care has tested positive for tuberculosis, the academic health system said July 27. 

A new anesthesiologist-led approach to reducing surgical site infections and length of hospital stays in colorectal patients resulted in a 50 percent decrease in infection instances and a 46 percent decrease in stay length, according to new research from Austin…

VCU researchers found that loss of smell and taste are no longer common symptoms of COVID-19.

Antibiotic resistance may be even more likely for patients infected with mixed strain pathogens, according to a report published July 12 in Nature.

Hospital leaders and health officials are still searching for the cause of a bacterial outbreak that has killed nine patients at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center.

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 Epidemiology. 

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have built an air sensory system capable of detecting any of the known COVID variants that may be inside a room in real-time, according to a July 10 news release.