News that the CDC launched an infection control training program and a study that found fluoroquinolone use decreased after the FDA’s 2016 black box warning were among the top stories in infectious ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . National infection prevention experts, led by the CDC’s Health Research & Educational Trust, have developed a ...

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

Infection preventionists are increasingly important — and increasingly challenged. Here’s a look at how and why.

The Michigan Department of Public Health and Human Services will provide $50,000 in COVID-19 relief funding to make free infection control training available for direct care workers, the state said ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has issued numerous complex and detailed rules and standards that apply to, and regulate, dental practices. Although many dental and ...

The following is written by Carla Daley, director of clinical operations for Regent Surgical Health. At Regent, we believe in “walking the walk,” meaning that our facilities should be status ...

The best way to show the federal government takes seriously the importance of infection control in nursing homes, especially in the wake of the pandemic, is to require a full-time specialist. That’s ...

Beth LaBouyer, RN, CNOR, executive director of California Ambulatory Surgery Association, and Debbie Mack, RN, CNOR, CASC, immediate past president of CASA and vice president of operations at ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s latest report on Kadima Rehabilitation and Nursing in Drums notes that the facility did not have anyone serving as an infection preventionist during a recent ...

Think back to mid-March. Think back to all of the confusion surrounding COVID-19 and what dental practices needed to do to fight back against the spread of the virus. Think back to the days your ...

The CDC unveiled a national infection control training initiative Oct. 28 known as Project Firstline to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases in healthcare settings. The $180 million ...