At the start of an unprecedented meeting of vaccine committee of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

Mom survives flesh-eating infection, faces life with amputations KGTV via CNN Newsource Arisbeth Munoz is now home after a harrowing battle with necrotizing fasciitis that led to multiple amputations.

The United States could soon have another tool in the fight against respiratory syncytial virus, an illness that’s the No. 1 cause of hospitalization in infants.

Severe overcrowding and a lack of hospital beds in Karachi's public healthcare facilities are making it nearly impossible to maintain effective infection control, posing serious risks to both patients ...

This wasn’t a generic infection — it was a targeted assault on the body’s most sensitive control system. Despite the gravity of the outbreak, no official government announcement was made at ...

The CDC has ended its healthcare infection control practices advisory committee to comply with President Donald Trump’s “continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy” executive order ...

GHASTLY—Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee HICPAC, which issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities.

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow.

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… ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS Physician oversight should be conducted in a culture that is non-punitive. Infection prevention and control teams need to be paired with strong environmental services teams and ...