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.

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- The overall number of new sexually transmitted disease infections in Minnesota decreased in 2020, according to statistics released Tuesday. But an increase of gonorrhea during the pandemic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The emerging fungal infection Candida auris spread among U.S. healthcare facilities “at an alarming rate” in 2020 and 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned this week ...

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 ...

Campylobacter and Salmonella infections declined in Switzerland in 2020 while Listeria was stable despite a large outbreak. E. coli reports fell for the first time since 2014. The COVID-19 pandemic ...