Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient clinics throughout the US shifted toward virtual care to limit viral transmission in the office. However, as health care facilities have reopened, evidence ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities. The Healthcare Infection Control ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers systematically reviewed 73 studies from around the globe. An infectious disease expert said there ...

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 Prevention ...

There are limited data on the effectiveness of the vaccines against symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) currently authorized in the United States with respect to hospitalization, admission ...

"We found that residents of these facilities suffered significantly greater morbidity and mortality from RSV infections compared with older adults living in the community." — Brenda L. Tesini, MD, ...