It's also called a hospital-acquired infection or a health ... You can get one at any healthcare facility. If these infections are not treated, they can cause more serious health issues.

Recognition of this risk, of course, is almost as old as hospitals themselves, and soon after the cause of infection was known, the prevention of sepsis became a major factor in hospital design.

This is called multidrug resistance. These germs are frequent causes of hospital-acquired infections, especially in intensive care units (ICUs). Acinetobacter baumannii caused 8,500 infections in ...

A new study from the National Institutes of Health shows a jump in both hospital-acquired infections ... of acquiring bacteria that can then cause an infection while they're in the hospital ...

A new, experimental vaccine given on arrival to hospital could help prevent ... of antibiotic-resistant microbes that cause health care-acquired infections,” said Brian Luna, an author of ...

An experimental antibiotic, zosurabalpin, to fight a deadly superbug has entered the final human trials. Currently, no new antibiotics targeting this superbug have been developed in over five decades.

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the ...

New Yorkers should check out how well the facility performed in limiting hospital-acquired infections, health officials said. The stakes are clear as these infections are significant causes of ...

The rare bacteria, Mycobacterium abscessus, can sometimes cause hospital-acquired infections, often from contaminated water. But the number of times hospitalized patients had tested positive for ...

According to a Comprehensive Research Report by Market Research Future (MRFR), “Hospital Acquired Infections Market Information by Pathogen Types, Method of Treatment, Infection Type, and Region ...

Nasia Safdar discusses the dangers of hospital-acquired infections. The Conversation has collaborated ... so they’re at risk of acquiring bacteria that can then cause an infection while they’re in the ...