London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) declared an outbreak of superbug MRSA, a bacteria resistant to many antibiotics, at Victoria Hospital on Wednesday. The MRSA outbreak, which stands for methicillin ...

"The last thing that we wanna do is a patient to come into the hospital and leave sicker than what they were," Tennille said. The hospital's environmental services team employs rigorous cleaning ...

Avian influenza is continuing to plague poultry and dairy farming operations, and with the virus spreading across the country ...

" Signs and symptoms usually begin 12 to 48 hours after your first exposure to a norovirus and last 1 to 3 days," noted the ...

Despite the constant pressures and potential pitfalls of battling infectious diseases, many nursing homes do an exemplary job tackling all that comes with caring for an immunocompromised population.

Norovirus cases reach unprecedented levels, medical experts uncover lesser-known symptoms and share vital prevention ...

Enteral feeding is a method of delivering a nutritionally complete feed containing protein carbohydrate fat water minerals and vitamins directly into the stomach duodenum or jejunum This practice is c ...

The department is still offering flu vaccines for children six months and up, and they recommend that you get one if you haven’t already even though it is later in the season.

A farm in Long Island, New York, is being forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks after health officials ...

Flu activity begins to increase in October and often peaks between December and February, according to the Centers for ...

Following the confirmation of an Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) pose a persistent and tremendous threat to patient safety, having claimed 72,000 patients during their hospitalization according to the Centers for Disease ...