A lack of infection control policies for home healthcare programs puts patients and caregivers at risk, according to a Case Western Reserve University news release. Irena Kenneley, assistant professor ...

The CDC and medical associations have released several new guidelines on infection prevention and control this year. The updates come as hospitals nationwide work to address rising rates of heatlhcare ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

The first comprehensive recommendations in 10 years for dental infection control were released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new Guidelines use the broader term ...

At the 19th Annual Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on October 27, Sandra Jones, MBA, executive vice president, ASD Management, shared five key practices for ASC infection control, quality ...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the United Kingdom offers free guidance on infection control, which has recently been updated since its last release in 2003. The clinical ...

The CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) met on August 22 for a continued discussion of the proposed watered-down, anti-scientific new infection control guidelines ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has released an updated set of guidelines for infection control in cardiovascular catheterization laboratories. Release of these revised ...

The benefit of skin-to-skin contact with family members for critically ill newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is well established. Long-standing concerns about the transmission of ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

A new study that looked at dental office compliance with infection-control guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that implementation was neither complete nor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compliance with recommended infection control guidelines in low- and middle-income countries is substandard, ...