The CDC challenged draft 2024 infection control guidelines sent to the agency for approval from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), asking for clarification on key ...

Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) says it continues to detect a rising number ...

The state Department of Public Health continues to cite issues concerning patient care at Saint Francis Hospital, with the latest inspection report finding the hospital allegedly failed to implement ...

Editor’s note: This column is being published posthumously, after the author’s death in May. In addition to leading NADONA for more than 20 years, Sherrie had been a devoted, skillful columnist for ...

In a recent commentary published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers reviewed the usefulness of universal masking in healthcare professionals (HCPs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 ...

The regulation governing the F880 tag requires that facilities develop and implement ongoing infection control and prevention programs and written policies and procedures for infection control to ...

Modeling done based on data from a single hospital suggests a transmission-prevention regime meaningfully reduced hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Efforts to use contact ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent recommendations for MRSA prevention suggest contact precautions are essential. There are currently no ...

MANILA, Philippines — The World Health Organization said there is no available vaccine or licensed treatment for the Nipah virus disease and encouraged governments to strengthen infection prevention ...