The pace of new HIV infections in the U.S. continued to slow in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new annual report Tuesday, suggesting trends that had already begun to ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) have remained above pre-COVID levels in acute care settings, according to new federal data. The 2021 National and State HAI Progress Report, published online Nov ...

New HIV infections in the U.S. dropped by 12 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday. Still, despite that progress, ...

Hospital-developed COVID-19 cases represent about 1.8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations and were potentially on the decline by the tail end of the pandemic’s delta wave, according to a patient data ...

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The incidence of several common healthcare-associated infections reported by U.S. hospitals increased in 2021, new CDC data shows. Clostridioides difficile infections fell 3 percent in 2021, while ...

Researchers have discovered a high prevalence of COVID-19 co-infections in central Missouri during the 2021-2022 flu season, with a monthly co-infection rate as high as 48 percent among individuals ...

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) who were receiving disease-modifying therapies were found to have rare occurrences of severe COVID-19 if they had received the vaccine, according to a study ...

A urinary tract infection caused by Streptococcus bacteria is relatively uncommon. Certain populations are more at risk than others, but seeking treatment is important for all. Infections caused by ...

New Zealand has reported foodborne infection and outbreak figures for 2021 with statistics still affected by a coronavirus. In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic and public health measures taken to control ...