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 care for ...

Five medical societies have published a set of recommendations for operationalizing strategies for infection prevention in acute care settings that account for conditions within the facility, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers systematically reviewed 73 studies from around the globe. An infectious disease expert said there ...

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities. The Healthcare Infection Control ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

There are limited data on the effectiveness of the vaccines against symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) currently authorized in the United States with respect to hospitalization, admission ...

Sexually transmitted infections are becoming more common in older adults. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and up more than doubled in the U.S. over the 10-year period from ...