Healthcare Hygiene magazine

The September issue of Healthcare Hygiene magazine explores transmission dynamics and COVID-19, and how the coronavirus is challenging the traditional hierarchy of controls. We also explore how researchers are proposing…

A new Cleveland Clinic study has found that receiving the influenza vaccine does not increase a person’s risk for contracting COVID-19 or worsen associated morbidity or mortality. Published in the…

By Jeffrey Brady, MD, MPH, and Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH Today, the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety released Safer Together: A National Action Plan To Advance Patient Safety, which…

Healthcare Hygiene magazine presents a special edition on imperatives pertaining to infection prevention and control, including a look at HAI prevention progress; a ‘One Health’ approach to IP&C; plus a…

Belief in conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic is not only persistent but also is associated with reluctance to accept a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available and to engage…

Hiroshima University researchers found that using Ultraviolet C light with a 222 nm wavelength, which doesn’t harm living cells in the human eye and skin, effectively kills the SARS-CoV-2. The…

More than half of patients hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 in Michigan during the state’s peak months received antibiotics soon after they arrive, just in case they had a bacterial infection…

Penn Medicine researchers have found that middle-aged individuals — those born in the late 1960s and the 1970s — may be in a perpetual state of H3N2 influenza virus susceptibility…

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)…

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…