Oregon hospitals have been making progress in reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs), but they still fall short in ...

According to new data from the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon hospitals made gains in lowering the number of health care-associated infections among hospitalized patients and meeting some federal ...

Compared to the general population, healthcare workers have a higher risk of hepatitis C infection, according to Reuters coverage of a study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers ...

Hospitals across Oregon are falling below national standards in preventing infections, according to the Oregon Health ...

Stone is a retired infectious disease physician, medical journalist, and author. Feinberg is professor of medicine/infectious disease and professor of behavioral medicine and psychiatry at the West ...

"It's one fungus that's very tricky to treat but it's also very tricky to manage in health care systems because it's not only resistant to the most common anti fungal agents to treat it in humans, but ...

Healthcare workers who developed COVID-19 and had at least one underlying medical condition missed more days of work than those who had the flu, or a SARS-CoV-2 infection without symptoms, according ...