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The FDA in 2023 approved treatments for several hospital-associated infections and fully approved a long-used COVID-19 medication, among other non-vaccine-related regulatory decisions.

Similar to SARS-CoV-2, which can cause long COVID, people hospitalized with influenza are at an increased risk for health issues long after they have cleared the infection, according to a study.

Hospital-associated infections declined significantly at acute-care hospitals in 2022, although rates at other health care facilities remained relatively stagnant, according to a CDC report.

A new clinical decision rule could help physicians determine which older ED patients who experienced a fall will require imaging, according to a study published in CMAJ.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

In 2015, the CMS introduced the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle, or SEP-1, as an all-or-nothing, pay-for-reporting measure.

I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.

Pediatric patients with bronchiolitis who are admitted to hospitals that use more high-flow nasal cannula outside the ICU face longer stays and greater total costs, according to study results published in Hospital Pediatrics.

Preterm and full-term infants faced similar elevated risks for ED visits in their first year when they were exposed to higher levels of fine particulate matter 2.5 m or less in diameter, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

A commercial water purifier was possibly responsible for infections among four patients undergoing cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, three of whom died, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.