During a pandemic of an airborne infectious disease, the number of patients needing hospital-based healthcare services may exceed available negative-pressure isolation room capacity. To evaluate one ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

Patients with suspected tuberculosis (TB) require special precautions in healthcare facilities, and cases of TB have been rising in the US over the past several years. These precautions include ...

FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 dashboard is reporting 702 hospital admissions for the latest week, which is up from 688 the week before ...

If you are at home with COVID, you might be wondering how long you’re really infectious for. You don’t want to isolate longer than necessary but you also don’t want to risk your friends’ and workmates ...