In nursing homes, influenza spreads quickly. Even in facilities with separate wings, staff move throughout the home, caring for medically complex older adults who often share rooms. In this way, a ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice during nursing home flu and COVID outbreaks, according to a new study.

This year saw at least 33 multi-state foodborne illness outbreaks for a total of 921 patients. There may have been more outbreaks because the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease ...

Health officials cited a construction company for its role in the outbreak that killed seven but said Harlem Hospital committed no lapses, despite a Gothamist investigation showing it did not follow ...