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.

Two weeks into the Trump administration, external communication from federal health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the nation and world has gone dark. In the ...

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 67 confirmed human cases of H5N1 bird flu ...

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The Sheridan Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Angel Oliver as the hospital’s infection ...

Sepsis is an underestimated killer. Nearly a quarter of patients treated for sepsis in hospital will die, but because so many ...

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Surgical site infections can be prevented during pain relief procedures, anesthesiologists and pain physicians say.

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