Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

The first comprehensive guidelines dedicated to minimizing infections in patients undergoing surgeries and procedures involving regional anesthesia and acute and chronic interventional pain management ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took offline recommendations on how doctors should treat sexually transmitted ...

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

In multidisciplinary guidelines issued by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and published online ...

Sepsis caused one in five deaths globally in 2020, according to the WHO. Essentially, the world sees 11 million deaths due to ...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has lowered the recommended age for pneumococcal vaccination from 65 to ...

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild water birds like ducks, geese, swans, etc. Infected birds shed the virus in ...

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...

Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert about an outbreak in Uganda of deadly Sudan virus ...