A national watchdog group recently scored some central Pennsylvania hospitals below average for several safety metrics, including hand washing, infection and having specially trained doctors care for ...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) & rotavirus (RO) cause significant illness in infants & toddlers & account for many pediatric winter admissions. Since both viruses are nosocomially spread via ...

Handwashing in clinical settings prior to putting on gloves may not actually be the best policy for infection prevention, a new study has found. Hand hygiene is important, but past research has ...

The last thing healthcare workers want to send their patients home with is another illness. And there's nothing more effective at controlling infections in health care facilities than proper hand ...

Effective handwashing can reduce up to a third of infections and is an important line of defence against community and hospital-acquired infection, including Covid-19. Young children are particularly ...

Today's Google Doodle depicts Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician and "father of infection control," widely recognized as the first person to realize the medical benefits of handwashing. The ...