The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises hospitals to improve diagnoses by improving communication with ...

The goal is to reduce the impact of incorrect diagnoses, or delayed ones, which can occur for many different reasons and seriously impact the safety of patient care. Among other news, New Hampshire’s ...

The CDC on Sept. 17 released a set of new resources to support hospitals in reducing diagnostic errors, which are responsible for nearly 800,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) concerns have risen dramatically since the CDC labeled stethoscope hygiene as a ...

Federal officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident with no known exposure to bird flu, contracted the ...

Shah also revealed that the CDC is working with commercial companies that make diagnostic tests to get them working on developing H5N1 tests, in case there is a need for them down the road.

That's according to a new report released Sept. 10, which is World Suicide Prevention Day, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report highlighted three county-level ...

The CDC assured that the risk among the general public “remains low.” “The question now is: How did this patient acquire the infection?” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning Friday over recalled eggs sold in three states. In a “Food Safety Alert,” the agency said 24 hospitalizations had occurred ...

The CDC monitors wastewater data to track the virus, which can lag a couple weeks behind current case counts. Data at the end of August showed nearly half of all states reporting "very high ...