Researchers find that infection control policies in the ICU vary widely and clinician adherence rates are often low....

A new study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology found that superbugs grew at an alarming rate in hospitals and healthcare facilities in the southeastern United States from 2008 to...

As the Ebola outbreak intensifies in Africa, U.S. hospitals are bracing for a potential influx of patients with the deadly disease....

It's been six years since a group of infection prevention organizations, hospital associations, and regulators assembled to release the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infec...

One group of UCLA researchers argues that the handshake, although steeped in social custom, has no business in healthcare....

A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center study found that anesthesia providers often fail to clean their hands during surgical procedures....

The federal government this fall will cut Medicare payments for hospitals that have the worst rates of hospital-acquired infections and patient injuries....

A new report from the World Health Organization found that antimicrobial resistance poses a serious threat to patients throughout the world....

New and improved data released by the CDC offers a more comprehensive and accurate depiction of the impact that healthcare-associated infection (HAI) has on patient care, both within each state and ac...

A new report found that sepsis is present in as many as one in every two hospitalized patients who die....