FOND DU LAC – SSM Health is the first in Wisconsin to launch a medical alert program to prevent post-birth deaths in area ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Poultry farmers have been on high alert watching the avian influenza devastate the country. A commercial poultry farm in ...

Surgical site infections can be prevented during pain relief procedures, anesthesiologists and pain physicians say.

Here’s why doctors recommend getting specific shots at specific times — as well as what happens when parents stray from that ...

Almost seven years since health officials tied the world’s largest listeriosis outbreak to products made by South Africa’s ...

Intervention models checked against electronic medical record data show ways to help improve infection control practices and ...

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As more cases of bird flu emerge across the country, public health leaders in New York City are watching warily -- and making ...

Surgeons at Millard Fillmore Suburban have been using this option for more than a decade and are continuously developing ways to collaborate for the benefit of patients.

Four hospital systems in our area are restricting patient visitations due to increased flu and respiratory illnesses.