Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, has been named Mass General Brighams’s inaugural chief of infection control, the Somerville, Mass.-based system said June 28. She was also recently appointed to a federal ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

In the final report of a three-part series published last year about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing homes, the Office of the Inspector General found “monumental and ongoing staffing ...

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 ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

What is a Master of Science in Infection Prevention & Control? The Master of Science (MS) in Infection Prevention & Control degree trains students to work as professionals in the field of infection ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

Mass General Brigham researchers at two hospitals found the metabolic strategies C. difficile uses to rapidly colonize the gut and identified ways to combat the disease, the Somerville, Mass.-based ...

SEMBACH, Germany – A select group of Army dentists, enlisted dental specialists and civilian dental staff assigned to the Rhineland-Pfalz Dental Activity recently took part in specialized training ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that KLAS Research has recognized the Sentri7 ® clinical surveillance solution as Best in KLAS ® for infection control and ...

This guide deconstructs the pathophysiology of UTIs, exploring the anatomical risks in women, and the efficacy of antibiotic regimens ...