A preliminary document authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes advice from infection control experts on how to safely reopen amid coronavirus -- and is more detailed ...

Federal health officials on Friday announced a $2.1 billion investment to strengthen infection prevention and control measures against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases across the public ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced plans Friday for a $2.1 billion investment into public health infrastructure for infection prevention across healthcare facilities ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care ...

The CDC's recently published guidelines on infection control and combating antibiotic resistance don't take into account the reality of what's going on in the "trenches", Judy Stone, clinical ...

The initiative will allow states and other U.S. jurisdictions to “staff, train and deploy” strike teams to help long-term care operations with known or suspected COVID-19 infections, CDC says.

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 NNU says the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) didn’t give people enough time to review a draft of the guidelines. MCKNIGHT’S LONG-TERM CARE NEWS; ...

The agency last revised the guidelines, "Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings," in 2007, and now the group that advises the CDC on infection ...

The CDC's Isolation Precautions guidance has not been updated since 2007, and the agency's Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee met Aug. 22 to discuss revisions.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an alert to health care providers about bacterial infections as a strain of the ... which is a bloodstream infection, according to the CDC.