Healthcare Hygiene magazine

The rise of fake news could be making disease outbreaks worse, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Researchers focused on influenza, monkeypox and norovirus across…

The February 2020 issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine explores several aspects of making the business case for infection prevention and control, with advice from clinical and value analysis experts, as…

The CDC today confirmed another infection with Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in the United States. The patient is among a group of people under a federal quarantine order at JBSA-Lackland in…

A world-first clinical trial has called into question the effectiveness of using more than one antibiotic to treat methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. Researchers from the University of Queensland, in…

A computer-generated 3D rendering of a flu virus. Courtesy of Dan Higgins/Courtesy of CDC/Douglas Jordan Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than others? Part of…

Inadequate hospital cleaning may contribute to cross-transmission of pathogens. Hung, et al. (2020) conducted a three-phase study using human factors engineering (HFE) approach to enhance environmental cleanliness. This study was…

Most Tennessee infants exposed to hepatitis C at birth are not later tested to see if they acquired the virus, according to a study by researchers at Monroe Carell Jr….

  Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain prevalent in the United States, and environmental contamination and transmission of key pathogens is a critical target for improving the safety of care delivered. However,…

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…