The CDC challenged draft 2024 infection control guidelines sent to the agency for approval from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), asking for clarification on key ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control ...

Even as the COVID-19 public health emergency winds down, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending healthcare facilities put serious thought into whether broader use of face ...

A group of public health experts is urging the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update infection control practices that currently don’t incorporate COVID-19 best practices. The ...

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...

The new recommendation suggests that only newborns of mothers who test positive for hepatitis B receive the vaccine ...

In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift ...