Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Several healthcare-associated infections in US hospitals spiked in 2020 compared to the previous ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home residents have accounted for roughly one of every six COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Nursing homes have also been very dangerous places ...

Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data. Per a Centers for ...

With extensive funding and training, federal agencies and health care systems have spent years working together to reduce hospital-acquired infections and increase overall patient safety in the USA.

Years of progress the United States had made in fighting drug-resistant infections were largely erased during the Covid-19 pandemic, with hospital-acquired infections and resulting deaths growing 15% ...

An estimated 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. every year, and that number is on the rise, according to research by the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease. Many of ...

After years of steady reductions in healthcare-associated infections, significantly higher rates of four out of six routinely tracked infections were observed in U.S. hospitals, according to a new ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The rate of hepatitis C infections during pregnancy rose significantly in recent years, raising concerns over health risks posed by the virus for both mothers and their newborns.

The emerging fungal infection Candida auris spread among U.S. healthcare facilities “at an alarming rate” in 2020 and 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned this week ...