Healthcare Hygiene magazine

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF)…

Even before COVID-19 cancelled the annual meetings of APIC, AORN, IAHCSMM and other professional organizations, infection preventionists and allied healthcare professionals were challenged by tiny or non-existent budgets for travel….

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the U.S. are enduring longer hospital stays and facing higher rates of intensive care unit (ICU) admission than patients in China, finds a new study led…

Dr. Christopher Davies (left) and Dr. Avinash Singh (right) of the Medical University of South Carolina are co-authors of the May 22, 2020 article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry….

The May 2020 issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine explores the opportunities and challenges associated with hand hygiene. Plus a look at imperatives around personal protective equipment in the era of…

Healthcare Hygiene magazine presents a special edition on imperatives pertaining to sterile processing, including breaches in protocol and interventions to address them; implementation science’s contributions to sterile processing; advice from…

Environmental services personnel are a critical first line of defense against the spread of COVID-19. In a new commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine, authors from Harvard Medical School,…

Paul Ahlquist, virology investigator at the Morgridge Institute for Research. Even after heroic medical and societal efforts finally break the back of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the global sigh of…

By Kelly M. Pyrek Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the March 2020 issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine. Twenty years ago, the federal Needlestick Safety & Prevention Act (NSPA)…

This colorized negative-stained transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image depicts the ultrastructural details of a number of Influenza virus particles, or “virions”. A member of the taxonomic family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza…

Image courtesy of ATS The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Respiratory Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have published an official clinical guideline…