Erica Shenoy, MD, PhD, has been named Mass General Brighams’s inaugural chief of infection control, the Somerville, Mass.-based system said June 28. She was also recently appointed to a federal ...

OIG new data brief's findings reflect a need to reexamine staffing minimums. Findings in a recent data brief from the Office of Inspector General looking at nursing homes with high infection rates ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) generate direct costs to U.S. hospitals estimated in the tens of billions annually.

Mass General Brigham researchers at two hospitals found the metabolic strategies C. difficile uses to rapidly colonize the gut and identified ways to combat the disease, the Somerville, Mass.-based ...

As the size of ICE detention facilities grows, so do the risks of Legionella bacteria and measles, mumps and tuberculosis outbreaks. Hospitals are also falling short of infectious disease prevention.