A study led by MedUni Vienna has analyzed COVID-19 infection rates among cancer patients treated at Vienna General Hospital. It showed that due to strict safety precautions in patient care, COVID-19 infection rates were not ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Turkey has expressed concern over the rising number of coronavirus cases as the daily infection toll exceeded 1,000 for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
Aug 5, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Early in the U.S. coronavirus pandemic, many people landing in the hospital may have been given unnecessary antibiotics, a new study suggests.
Aug 4, 2020
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A group of researchers from Brazil, Denmark, Italy, and Spain analyzed 884 samples of fungi of the genus Candida collected from 16 hospitals and found a significant number of clusters in more than one hospital. Clusters are ...
Jul 30, 2020
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Everyone in Hong Kong will have to wear masks in public from this week, authorities said Monday, as they unveiled the city's toughest social distancing measures yet to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections.
Jul 27, 2020
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While initial reports suggested a significant risk of stroke in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, a new paper published in Stroke from Penn Medicine shows a low risk of stroke in patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Notably, ...
Jul 24, 2020
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Cambridge researchers have shown how rapid genome sequencing of virus samples and enhanced testing of hospital staff can help to identify clusters of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infections.
Jul 15, 2020
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A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center, in collaboration with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, shows that value-based incentive programs aimed at reducing health care-associated infections did not improve ...
Jul 8, 2020
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India's financial capital Mumbai opened four new coronavirus field hospitals on Tuesday—including one at a horseracing track—as the nationwide death toll jumped past 20,000.
Jul 7, 2020
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A new study at Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City has found that follow-up appointments for hospitalized children treated for childhood bronchitis are often not necessary, and that switching from ...
Jul 6, 2020
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