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World Immunization Week: Health Care Workers and Vaccines

How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction

Maternal Sepsis in the US: Disparities and Opportunities

Vaccine Deserts: When Access to Healthcare, Pharmacies, and the Internet are Limited

Medicare, Medicaid and the Fight Against HAIs

It's Infant Immunization Week and next week is World Immunization Week! Never has there been a more important time to talk about the benefits of...

Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...

This week we honor Black Maternal Health Week by focusing on where our worlds intersect: Infections that affect patients during and after childbirth....

We are in a new era of vaccine hesitancy, and that reality is intersecting with long-standing gaps in access across the country. Despite incredible...

In 1965, a sweeping update to the Social Security Act quietly introduced two programs that would transform American healthcare: Medicare and Medicaid...

We live in a time of tremendous advancements in science and medicine. We can save premature babies, reattach severed limbs (how about heads?), and...

Healthcare leaders are under constant pressure to make decisions based on evidence, especially when it comes to preventing healthcare-associated...

Pasteurization. Gram stains. Petri dishes. Bunsen burners. The science world is replete with processes or equipment named for their esteemed...

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), also called healthcare-associated infections, affect millions of patients every year. Most of these infections...

Patient safety is a topic we often cover in this blog; it is a central concern of anyone involved in the healthcare industry. However, we may not...

Radical. Unconventional. Irreverent. Dr. Abigail Salyers entered the field of microbiology as an outsider and ended up bringing the field into a new...

The Serenity Prayer is a well-known piece of advice about how to approach life's challenges. In it, the speaker asks for serenity to accept the...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

World Immunization Week: Health Care Workers and Vaccines

How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction

Maternal Sepsis in the US: Disparities and Opportunities

Vaccine Deserts: When Access to Healthcare, Pharmacies, and the Internet are Limited

Medicare, Medicaid and the Fight Against HAIs

World Immunization Week: Health Care Workers and Vaccines

How Do Hospitals Spend Money? An Introduction

Maternal Sepsis in the US: Disparities and Opportunities

Vaccine Deserts: When Access to Healthcare, Pharmacies, and the Internet are Limited

Medicare, Medicaid and the Fight Against HAIs

5 Bizarre Beliefs About Germs from the Not-So-Distant Past

Two Statistical Models Walk Into A Hospital: Bayesian vs. Frequentist Studies

Dr. Jane Hinton: Co-Developer of Mueller-Hinton Agar

HAIs and Women's Health: The Most Common Infections

5 Facets of Patient Safety

Women in Microbiology: Dr. Abigail Salyers

Modifiable Risk Factors: The Courage to Change the Things We Can