Compared to the general population, healthcare workers have a higher risk of hepatitis C infection, according to Reuters coverage of a study in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Researchers ...

September 3, 2009 — To help protect against respiratory infection, healthcare workers who interact with patients suspected or confirmed of being infected with the novel pandemic influenza A strain ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new roadmap that acknowledges the increased medical needs of residents, the rise ...

Infection prevention has always been central to healthcare, but today it’s expanding beyond hand hygiene and PPE to include ...

The Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC) and Office of Education, both within the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), have collaborated to develop and launch ...

Care providers in Sierra Leone have more than 100 times the risk of becoming infected with the Ebola virus than the country’s general public does, according to NBC News. This number may be ...

Healthcare workers who developed COVID-19 and had at least one underlying medical condition missed more days of work than those who had the flu, or a SARS-CoV-2 infection without symptoms, according ...