Medical investigators found that infections linked to contaminated liquid nutrition supplement could have begun two months before officials realized there was a widespread problem at Alabama hospitals ...

ORLANDO -- Challenging medical dogma, the use of intravenous (IV) iron therapy for hospitalized patients with iron deficiency anemia dealing with acute infections was associated with a reduced risk ...

Researchers created realistic, skin-like replicas made of Ecoflex, a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous ...

The benefits of treating anemia may need to be balanced against the risk of developing infection, according to investigators. The latest and largest systematic review on intravenous iron ...

Treatment with intravenous (IV) iron significantly improved survival and increased hemoglobin levels in patients with iron-deficiency anemia who were hospitalized for an acute bacterial infection, ...

Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of ...

In the second part of this series, Noel Kelsch, RDHAP, writes that successful infection control and clinician safety depend on every clinician being ethical and following laws, regulations, ...

Our hands are the home for microorganisms which live on one's skin surface. Mostly, these microorganisms are harmless. But the hands can become infected with germs that are harmful to the body, while ...

Patients on hemodialysis who received high-dose had similar rates of infection and rates of hospitalization for infection compared with those treated with low-dose IV iron, a secondary analysis of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Administering IV iron to treat iron deficiency anemia during infections significantly improved short- and ...

Hand hygiene, as a principle for safety in hospitals, has been around for over a century,” Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, said. However, despite the well-understood importance ...