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Hospital-acquired infections are infections patients didn't have when they were admitted to hospital. The most common include wound infections after surgery, urinary tract infections and pneumonia.

Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF group institution—and their colleagues from the U.S. and China have explained how the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SEATTLE — In this video, Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH, attending physician and hospital epidemiologist at The ...

You go to the hospital for treatment and to get better. But sometimes, you get something much less welcome: an infection.

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...

A 5-year-old boy from the UK died barely one day after being sent home from the hospital. Before going to Queen Alexandra ...

Older adults hospitalized with infections had a significantly higher risk of developing dementia, according to an October study published in Aging-US. “Our study is also the first to provide hazard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hospital-acquired infections, which became substantially more common during the pandemic, have returned to pre-pandemic levels, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infections acquired in the hospital cost the U.S. health care system $10 billion a year, new findings show. Past studies have pegged the annual cost of treating those ...

An MLive.com investigation into health care-acquired infections. SUNDAY: Michigan is among the largest states not to require reporting. • See our database that details infections at many Michigan ...

Hospital-acquired infections, which became substantially more common during the pandemic, have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from a patient safety watchdog group. It's key ...