Cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, rose 41 percent during the pandemic and account for around 10 percent of hospital-associated infections. Its pandemic-induced rise has led experts to revise infection prevention guidelines for clinicians, according to a…
Infection Control
Twenty years after the U.S. noted eight locally acquired malaria cases, Florida has confirmed four malaria infections and Texas has seen one in the last two months, the CDC said June 26.
Officials at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are monitoring a COVID-19 outbreak among patients and staff members.
When it comes to healthcare-acquired infections, a perfect score is zero. But while trying to keep HAIs — such as central line bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and Clostridioides difficile infections — as low as possible, the goal of…
Teams at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's Marina del Rey Hospital will soon undergo emergency department drills that will focus on infection control and prevention efforts if — or when — a patient shows up with symptoms indicative of a highly contagious…
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Physicians from Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston published a dissenting opinion in the New England Medical Journal on the widespread removal of mask policies in medical settings across the country.…
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…
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…