Several years ago I helped care for a man who had been hospitalized with a severe infection of the abdominal wall. When his primary doctors discovered that the bacteria responsible was resistant to ...

A hospital ought to be the last place to get a life-threatening infection, but it happens. A new study helps explain why. Researchers asked real hospital workers to remove gowns and gloves smeared ...

Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines urge medical professionals to wear gowns and gloves when they are working with patients who are infected with antibiotic-resistant ...

FedEx Express is set to deliver 400,000 isolation gowns to Baptist Memorial Health Care, a massive shipment needed to meet coronavirus-driven demand. The Memphis health care system will receive the ...