Hospital-acquired infections, or nosocomial infections are not usually present when people are admitted to a hospital, or so it has seemed. These infections tend to arise about 48 hours after a ...

April 13, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Elderly patients treated with central catheter and/or mechanical ventilation devices in intensive care units (ICUs), admitted from the emergency department or ...

A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals.

An infection with Clostridioides difficile (or C. diff in the trade) that occurs 72 hours after admission to the hospital is considered hospital-acquired. Medicare penalizes hospitals financially if ...

New research finds bacteria resistant to antibiotics in hospital wastewater system. A unique new study led by researchers at University of Limerick in Ireland has found that bacteria that may lead to ...

In a recent study published in PLOS Medicine, researchers explored the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant hospital-associated infections worldwide. Study: Global incidence in hospital-associated ...

Rabih Darouiche, MD, director of the center for prostheses infection at Baylor College of Medicine and founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections, discusses tactics to ...

The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight months. AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by ...

In a major step toward a precision therapy for Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection, researchers at The Hospital for ...

Before picking a hospital, New Yorkers should check out how well the facility performed in limiting hospital-acquired infections, health officials said. The stakes are clear as these infections are ...

Acinetobacter baumannii are bacteria that cause infections in the blood, lungs, kidneys, brain, and other organs. These bacteria are nonmotile (don't move on their own), strictly aerobic (need oxygen ...

To Burton Davis, the surgery seemed nothing short of a miracle. The 58-year-old's curved spine had nagged him for the better part of two decades, putting constant pressure on his lower back and ...