A popular water brand has been recalled after dangerous bacteria were found inside the bottle. Customers have been warned not ...

We are reviewing its content to make sure it is up-to-date. Our inspectors use these questions and prompts to look at how well staff and people living in care homes are protected by infection ...

Introduction: Infection prevention and control education has traditionally been conducted in a lecture-based manner, and simulation-based educational strategies have become increasingly prevalent in ...

Infection control researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed a virtual reality (VR) tool to train clinicians on core concepts in infection control, including cleaning and disinfecting ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) in collaboration with the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN), has released a practice guidance tool ...

This HealthLeaders podcast focuses on several infection prevention topics, including respiratory virus season, emerging pathogen considerations, and healthcare-acquired conditions. Health systems ...

Join International Infection Prevention Week 2024 to promote awareness of infection prevention strategies that enhance patient safety and healthcare worker well-being. IIPW 2024 focuses on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dec. 18 announced that a patient in Louisiana was hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu, the first known instance of severe infection in the U ...

Infection control in hospitals is usually implemented by an infection control team (ICT). Initially, ICTs consisted of doctors, nurses, epidemiologists and microbiologists; then, in the 1980s, the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) published the seventh version of the infection prevention and control guideline for coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) in December 2023. The revision and ...