Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Several healthcare-associated infections in US hospitals spiked in 2020 compared to the previous ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The rate of hepatitis C infections during pregnancy rose significantly in recent years, raising concerns over health risks posed by the virus for both mothers and their newborns.

An estimated 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. every year, and that number is on the rise, according to research by the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease. Many of ...

Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, US hospitals experienced an increase in health care–associated infections (HAIs), reversing encouraging trends seen in recent years, new CDC data ...

Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data. Per a Centers for ...

More than 1,300 nursing homes in the U.S., most of them for-profit facilities, experienced extremely high COVID-19 infection rates in 2020, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector ...

Antimicrobial-resistant infections have increased during the pandemic, with deaths rising by 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the CDC’s “COVID-19: US Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance, ...

After years of steady reductions in healthcare-associated infections, significantly higher rates of four out of six routinely tracked infections were observed in U.S. hospitals, according to a new ...