Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which are infections contracted by patients during or soon after health treatment, are a serious threat to healthcare safety. The impacts of HAIs are ...

About The Study: This longitudinal cohort study suggests that early-life infection burden may continue throughout childhood and is associated with later antibiotic treatments independent of social ...

RSV infection that is managed via primary care in children under 5 years of age leads to a substantial burden for families, primary care resources, and society.

Box 1. Estimates of the global burden of specific respiratory viral and bacterial pathogens in children younger than 5 years of age. Influenza-associated acute lower respiratory infections (2008 ...

Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation’s health care apparatus as HHS secretary. A higher cefazolin dose was not associated with decreased rates of surgical site infections among obese patients ...

Every day in the U.S., 1 in 31 hospital patients contracts at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). In addition to these patient infections, healthcare workers themselves are extremely ...

Influenza and acute respiratory infections are linked to considerable economic burden in the lowest income households in LMICs.

Healthcare professionals believe that AI can help reduce the burden on doctors, nurses and other workers in the industry.

And though the industry is focused on hiring, the burden on the ... to lighten the load on healthcare workers and patients. Sepsis is "the body's extreme response to an infection," according ...