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 ...

The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free toolkit designed to help healthcare organizations boost environmental infection prevention. 1. A checklist of what CMS surveyors are looking for in the ...

TOMI Environmental Solutions, Inc. announced its commitment to support clients and partners in preparing for emerging public health threats, particularly in light of rising concerns about Respiratory ...

Kansas health officials say dozens of people were stricken by a hard to treat and potentially deadly fungus in 2025. The ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer’s patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients’ behavior or environment has caused changes that ...

A recent study published in PLOS Pathogens discussed coinfections in the lungs and how viral infections create a favorable environment for bacteria and fungi. Study: Coinfections in the lung: How ...

Co-infection is the reality in natural populations, but few studies incorporate the players that matter in the wild. We integrate the environment, host demography, two parasites, and host immunity in ...

A study has found that much higher doses of antibiotics are needed to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present. It helps explain why respiratory infections often ...

In laboratory models, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that a mother's circadian ...

Spatial variation in disease risk in wild populations can depend both on environmental and genetic factors. Understanding the various contributions of each factor requires experimental manipulation of ...