While vaccines may not fully protect everyone, public health experts say they’re still proven to help prevent serious illness ...

U.S. flu infections are showing signs of a slight decline, but health officials say it's not clear that this severe flu ...

To stream WKYC on your phone, you need the WKYC app. CLEVELAND — Legendary Cleveland Browns QB Bernie Kosar announced Wednesday that he is back in the hospital dealing with E. coli blood poisoning and ...

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 large-scale meta-analysis, led by first author Wei Yu Chua from the National University of Singapore and corresponding author Eng-King Tan at the National Neuroscience Institute and Duke-NUS Medical ...

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 ...

A simple, scalable hospital program improved hand hygiene, sped up sepsis treatment, and sharply reduced severe infection outcomes, showing how small, coordinated changes can save mothers’ lives even ...

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A six-story former hospital building off I-196 in Grand Rapids will be demolished as part of Kent County’s plans to relocate its administrative services. The Kent County Board of ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — El Camino Hospital has widened its South Bay holdings with the purchase of a Mountain View office building a few miles from the health care organization’s main medical center campus.

GAZA CITY—Heavily armed Hamas fighters seized the Jordanian Field Hospital complex in Gaza City last weekend after a gunbattle with a rival Palestinian group, re-establishing their control over what ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. When a hospitalized patient shows signs of a dangerous, potentially deadly infection, you’d expect ...