A new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control demonstrates the use of a simple pre-surgical infection prevention protocol to prevent dangerous post-surgical infections.

Bhubaneswar: Infection prevention and control is a shared responsibility of all healthcare workers and should not be left to ...

In India, healthy ageing now focuses on infection prevention alongside chronic disease management. As the elderly population ...

The management of many medical and surgical conditions often involves long-term infusion of intravenous fluids, broad-spectrum antibiotics, chemotherapeutic agents for cancer, critical care therapies, ...

Prevalence surveys in U.S. hospitals showed that on any given day, 1 of 25 patients had a health care–associated infection in 2011, as compared with 1 of 31 patients in 2015. We repeated the survey in ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Sakhawat Husain has asked the authorities concerned to constitute a committee to look into the measures of infection prevention and control of diseases. He ...