Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted ...
The U.S. is seeing a "quad-demic" as cases of COVID-19, flu, RSV and norovirus spread at the same time. Experts said this is what you need to know.
Intervention models checked against electronic medical record data show ways to help improve infection control practices and ...
Panelists discuss how step-up dosing protocols reduce cytokine release syndrome (CRS) risk in patients with high-risk disease ...
In an increasingly interconnected world, global health faces constant threats from new and re-emerging pathogens. Recent devastating outbreaks of diseases ...
Research centres using SteraMist disinfection to control the mpox virus further demonstrate its effectiveness. Prioritizing infection prevention measures is critical due to the current mpox outbreak.
Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild water birds like ducks, geese, swans, etc. Infected birds shed the virus in ...
Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...
Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes influenza cases in New Jersey are at a "very high" level; here's how to identify, treat symptoms.
Here's what you need to know about the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, and what bird flu might mean to you, your ...