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Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're ...
STEUBENVILLE — Recent public health funding cuts by the Centers for Disease Control will impact the Jefferson County General Health District’s respiratory virus testing, Health Commissioner Andrew ...
A dental expert is sounding the alarm over a viral oral hygiene trend that could be doing more harm than good.
The loss of the CDC’s occupational safety office, NIOSH, may have long-term consequences, particularly for H5N1 bird flu ...
C. diff, a dangerous and highly contagious infection, spreads in hospitals much more than previously believed, especially ...
C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff ...
In Louisiana, two infants have died of pertussis in the past six months, according to the state health department, the first deaths from the disease in the state since 2018. Louisiana has had 110 ...
“We have certainly seen it,” said Wu, chief epidemiologist and system director for infectious diseases at Hartford HealthCare ... this is “good hand hygiene.” The CDC noted that candida ...
Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department ... NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data ...
A newborn who died last week was the second death from serious enterovirus infection this year, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC ... their health before and after giving birth, while caregivers ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to hand ... at the CDC but were not authorized to speak about it publicly. David Geier, who shows up in the Department of Health ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is rescinding COVID-19 funding for health departments nationwide. The CDC is pulling back the $11.4 billion in funds from state and community health ...