I spent more than twenty years as a Corporate Director of Infection Prevention for an Integrated Health Care Delivery Network (IDN). During that time, I learned a great deal about managing infection ...

Eight studies were cohort studies, while 23 were case-control studies. Included studies focused on all types of infections ...

Spatial repellents have been used as commercial household bite prevention products since the early 1900s, but significant ...

Using the latest data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), the GBD 2021 Diarrhoeal Diseases Collaborators1 have published updated estimates of the global ...

New research from APIC suggests hospitals can cut hand hygiene observations significantly without compromising data quality, freeing resources for education and infection prevention efforts.

In its explanation about meningitis online, it adds: "Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord (meninges). It can affect anyone, but is most ...

In Bristol, meanwhile, the biggest concerns were syphillis and oral herpes, according to the data compiled in LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor's annual Safe Sex Report. The findings come as condom use ...

A mysterious infection dubbed “Disease X” in Congo has sent alarm ... Jean Kaseya, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that nearly 200 of the 376 individuals ...

PORTLAND, N.Y. — A couple embarked on an approximately 260-mile drive just as a snowstorm struck over Thanksgiving weekend, New York State Police said, but their journey wasn’t holiday-related ...

Nursing homes must appoint at least one person as an IP who is responsible for maintaining a facility’s infection prevention and control program ... professional training in nursing, medical ...

But the biggest problem? Nothing, of course, kept the “control” families from asking their nurse about sleep training techniques, or pursuing it on their own—nor did anything commit the ...

It came just weeks after the musician admitted a severe eye infection he contracted in July in France left him blind in his right eye, with 'limited vision' in his left. 'Now, I have lost my ...