New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

Protecting residents staff ratings requires four actionable infection control steps to improve safety, compliance and operational performance in ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

H. pylori bacteria can disrupt your stomach's protective lining and cause peptic ulcers. You can treat H. pylori infections with antibiotics and medications that lower acid to prevent complications. H ...

You were just another C.T.R.L. employee clocking the graveyard shift, filing reports on things that shouldn’t exist. Now, the facility is under a sudden, total lockdown. Your main objective? Survive ...