Hospital care is a big component of the nation’s overall health care spending. Spending on hospital care totaled $1.5 trillion in 2023, representing nearly one third (31%) of national health ...

The World Health Organization is now recommending that countries include an HIV drug newly approved for prevention, lenacapavir, as a tool in their efforts to fight HIV infections ...

Central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) cause thousands of deaths each year and billions of dollars in added costs to the U.S. health-care system, the Centers for Disease Control ...

Research has shown hospital-at-home programs decrease hospital-acquired infections, falls, delirium, and immobility while ...

Health officials have raised concerns about swimming in the sea off seven European countries amid worries about a kind of bacteria which can cause serious infections leading to sepsis and even ...

As summer ushers in peak mosquito season, health and vector control officials are bracing for the possibility of another year ...

World Health Organization (WHO) recommends injectable lenacapavir for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention ...

Private equity acquisitions have increased rapidly across all aspects of healthcare, with gastroenterology practices experiencing the highest share. In the U.S., approximately 13% of ...

A research team at the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) yesterday said that it has developed a hand hygiene detection system to monitor healthcare workers’ compliance and reduce ...

Healthcare leaders can employ a range of strategies to ensure that patient safety is not compromised when care teams are ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae)-associated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) incidence was significantly higher in ...