MRSA contaminates intensive care unit gloves and gowns often, according to a study published Sept. 13 by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 

Michelle Janney, PhD, RN, serves as executive vice president, COO and interim chief nurse executive of Indianapolis-based Indiana University Health.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America named seven award winners during IDWeek 2019, taking place Oct. 2 to Oct. 6, in Washington, D.C.

Engineers and physicians at the University of California-Davis have developed a breath test to detect opioids.

Clinical guidelines focused on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with pneumonia that they acquired outside the hospital setting have been updated.

Washington, D.C.-based St. Elizabeths Hospital has been without safe water for more than seven days after the discovery of bacterial contamination that could cause Legionnaires' disease, according to The Washington Post.

Less than a third (30.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women in 1991. Twenty-five years later, still less than half (43.2 percent) of internal medicine residents were women, according to a research letter published by JAMA Internal Medicine.

The CDC said it expects the United States to maintain its measles elimination status after learning that New York state's measles outbreak is officially over, reports CNN.

The CDC reported 275 new cases of vaping-related illnesses this week, bringing the national case count to 1,080 as of Oct. 1.

Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital closed and consolidated two primary care offices into Hudson Falls (N.Y.) Medical Center in what appears to be a diversion from its state-approved closure plan, according to The Post-Star.