A retrospective study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators found that infection rates at a high-volume academic orthopedic center following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are uniformly ...

Updated consensus recommendations provide strategies for preventing both catheter-associated and noncatheter-associated UTIs.

Charly's dad says the public inquiry is not going to give patients and families the answers they are looking for.

Severe infections requiring hospitalization are associated with a markedly increased long-term IBD risk, with immune-related ...

Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

A new report suggests that hospital-acquired infections, while costly for hospitals, are big business for other companies. The report comes from Kalorama Information and asserts that treatment of HAIs ...

Rabih Darouiche, MD, director of the center for prostheses infection at Baylor College of Medicine and founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections, discusses tactics to ...

The University of Maryland School of Medicine kicked off a campaign this month to find the most cost-effective way to treat hospital-acquired infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

According to the report, Alabama hospitals performed better than the national average in three of four key infection ...