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Over the past year, we have started to build a library of helpful resources about healthcare topics ranging from hospital-acquired infections to...
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This past week, Vox published a series of articles by Sarah Kliff as a part of its year-long examination of fatal medical harm. The "Do No Harm"...
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What is Community-Acquired MRSA?
Most of the attention regarding antibiotic-resistant MRSA is found in hospitals and healthcare settings, places where strains of the common ...
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We were in the hospital room when the nurse came in holding a bag of clear liquid. She casually mentioned that she was giving my husband Rich...
Often the words of a concerned family member capture the experience of infection control far better than any researcher or specialist. We read with...
We have so many individuals to be thankful for when it comes to advances in healthcare. From the author of the Kahun medical papyrus, dated at 1800...