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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

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...

There are libraries of just comic books, collections dedicated to the world of punk music, archives of peace activism artifacts, and innumerable...

Less than a century ago, in a world without antibiotics and limited treatments for infections, the leading causes of death were infections -...

For many of us, Valentine's Day means chocolates, flowers, fancy meals and romantic evenings. Would you be surprised to hear that bacteria plays an...

February marks a month to celebrate the vital role of African-Americans in our nation's history. Today, we will take some time to recognize an...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

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

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

From Lab Notes to Legacy: Inside the Center for the History of Microbiology Archives (CHOMA)

Presidents and Pathogens

Bacteria: Our Funny Valentine

American Medical Hero: William A. Hinton