New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

Drug-resistant bacteria are one of the most urgent health challenges of our time, affecting people, animals, and the ...

Experts say COVID-era safety provisions are now central to how long-term care homes manage infectious disease.

Experts say COVID-era safety provisions are now central to how long-term care homes manage infectious disease.

A state investigation at Tucson’s Northwest Medical Center found several instances where patients in the hospital’s emergency room appear to have been ignored for hours. In one case, an infant with ...

So far, so good. That’s the reaction for those who work with the youngest and oldest on Shelter Island, monitoring a ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

One person who contracted it died. The fungus is commonly found in soil in the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys, and ...

Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected.

For over a decade, Ruth has written for multiple outlets providing patient education, including Health. She has written for health student education companies, collaborating on an anatomy textbook ...

You were just another C.T.R.L. employee clocking the graveyard shift, filing reports on things that shouldn’t exist. Now, the facility is under a sudden, total lockdown. Your main objective? Survive ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...