In a May 28 message to health system CEOs, two national healthcare safety organizations compared cutting infection control jobs to “dismantling the fire department during wildfire season ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and ...

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On any given day, 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents has an infection acquired while seeking medical care, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

HICPAC, which advises the CDC and HHS on infection control practices, has faced an outcry from some healthcare workers and occupational health experts since the beginning of its guideline revision ...

November 5, 2024. By Emily Gallagher. The Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC) and Office of Education, both within the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), have ...

THURSDAY, May 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal committee that helped set national rules for infection control in hospitals has been shut down, raising concerns from health experts. The ...

C-POLAR Innovations hosted the highly anticipated Vancouver Summit, where the focus was on strengthening infection control and resilience through public and private partnerships.. Held at the ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent… ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling an emerging fungus an “urgent threat” after a new study showed it has been spreading at an “alarming rate” throughout health care ...

While the 2022 hand hygiene practice recommendations from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and Association for Professionals in Infection ...