Federal health officials also set national targets for reducing hospital-acquired infections. In 2024, Oregon hospitals met only one of those goals: lowering C. difficile infections, which cause ...

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 ...

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

Hospital mortality infection rates declined significantly from 2019 to 2025 despite increased patient acuity, showing ...

Ciaran and Orlaith Staunton have reached a historic milestone in their decade-long campaign to reform American healthcare.

The members are Veronica McNally, JD, of Michigan State College of Law, and Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, of the University of ...

During surges, the differences in case rates between in-center and home patients were more apparent than during non-surge weeks for all variant-dominated periods.

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to pose a significant threat to global public health, underscoring the critical role of infection preventionists (IPs). However, considerable ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds, left, and U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, center, as well as Denison Community School District Superintendent Kim Buryanek, right, listened in on a class at Broadway ...

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- A Montgomery County business owner is continuing to recover in the hospital after being diagnosed with a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection, a medical emergency that has ...