Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, told Newsweek in an email on Saturday, “Infection with a H5N5 bird flu virus ...

Health officials in Washington state said a resident has contracted bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. since ...

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 ...

For the first time in 17 years, physicians and researchers have published updated guidance for infection prevention and ...

Mortality was strongly associated with older age, comorbidities, and infection type, underscoring the need for early and diagnosis-specific antimicrobial intervention.

Infection prevention has always been central to healthcare, but today it’s expanding beyond hand hygiene and PPE to include ...

Two members of the Health Department of Northwest Michigan's oral health team recently earned national certification in dental infection prevention and control.

A presentation by scientists on a work group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel ...

Abstract: The control of underactuated balance robots is aimed at performing both the external (actuated) subsystem trajectory tracking and internal (unactuated) subsystem balancing tasks. In this ...

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) in Austin, TX, November 10-13, 2013, will include symposia on urban and structural insect pests such as bed bugs, cockroaches, ...

Health chiefs have detected a new kind of infection in the UK which is making people ill - with some even ending up in hospital. The Candidozyma auris (C. auris) is a type of yeast which has ‘only ...

Abstract: Increases in power demand continue to burden power suppliers. Efficiency, reliability, improved control and uptime are key words to describe power production needs in today's power starved ...