Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Several healthcare-associated infections in US hospitals spiked in 2020 compared to the previous ...

Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, US hospitals experienced an increase in health care–associated infections (HAIs), reversing encouraging trends seen in recent years, new CDC data ...

With extensive funding and training, federal agencies and health care systems have spent years working together to reduce hospital-acquired infections and increase overall patient safety in the USA.

Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data. Per a Centers for ...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied an “alarming increase” in drug-resistant infections that are spread in hospitals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared in a new ...

After years of steady reductions in healthcare-associated infections, significantly higher rates of four out of six routinely tracked infections were observed in U.S. hospitals, according to a new ...

The relationship between the presence of antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the risk of subsequent reinfection remains unclear. We investigated the ...

A Stanford study estimated that President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies held between June 20 and September 22 have already produced over 30,000 more infections and over 700 more deaths. Such rallies ...

Some fungi that can cause serious lung infections have spread to many parts of the United States. A Science News story on the expanded range of Histoplasma, Coccidioides and Blastomyces fungi hit a ...

Your sinuses are air-filled pockets that are located behind your face. When fluid builds up in your sinuses, germs like viruses and bacteria can multiply and lead to a sinus infection. COVID-19 is a ...