Nursing homes that allowed visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic did not see higher infection rates, even during one of its most dangerous phases, academic researchers conclude in a ...

The man's illness was found during monitoring contacts of his father who recently died from a Nipah infection.

Quest Diagnostics yesterday announced the launch of a new diagnostic test for Oropouche virus, a disease primarily spread by ...

There was no scientific advice to test all patients discharged from hospitals into care homes at the start of the Covid ...

More men than women are back in their cubicles, but remaining remote comes with risks. “It creates that barrier.” ...

New research finds that nearly half of the racial and ethnic disparities in outpatient COVID-19 antiviral prescriptions stem ...

A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

NY auditors revealed state health officials failed to conduct timely adult care facility inspections and left critical problems unaddressed.

COVID is still with us, and there will be other pandemics. It’s critical that we don’t forget the lessons we’ve learned.” ...

Nursing homes are required to employ an infection preventionist, at least part-time, a registered nurse at least eight-consecutive hours a day, seven days a week, the report said. Dicken said some ...

Despite widespread adoption of surveillance testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among staff members in skilled nursing facilities, evidence is limited regarding its relationship with ou ...

The Biden administration's decision to end the COVID-19 public health emergency in May will have ripple effects across the health care system.