MRSA News

Although Candida auris and Clostridioides difficile continue to be dangerous for patients, research published throughout this year has highlighted strides made in outbreak prevention and understanding nosocomial infections.

Each month, we ask one of our PharmD columnists to dig into the literature to find evidence-based answers to important clinical questions in the field of infectious diseases.

Each cover of Healio | Infectious Disease News is topped by a feature story on an emerging topic in the field of ID.

A new annual medical conference will focus on the topic of antimicrobial resistance, organizers announced Friday.

The number of physicians who matched in adult and pediatric infectious diseases this year improved slightly over 2023, signaling a potential boost to the specialties, officials said.

Each year, from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, the CDC’s U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week raises awareness about antimicrobial resistance and encourages the appropriate use of antibiotics and antifungals.

I initially became hooked on ID when I was a medical student rounding on ID service and was evaluating a person with pneumonia who had just expectorated purulent sputum.

As a physician trained in India, I saw the devastating impact of infectious diseases like TB, malaria and waterborne illnesses, and the profound difference public health interventions can have. That led to my career in global health.

LOS ANGELES — In a Healio video exclusive, the president-elect of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, or SHEA, gave an overview of the critical issues that health care epidemiologists will face in the coming year.