Passive Immunization: The Expanding Role of Monoclonal Antibodies in Preventive Medicine
For governments and health systems, monoclonal antibodies represent not just another drug class, but a strategic shift toward precision prevention.
Shifting Our Focus to Sample Sensitivity: The Metric That Deserves More Attention in Respiratory Care
The positive ripple effect of high specimen sensitivity influences the clarity of diagnoses, the timing of treatment and the efficiency of care delivery across systems, while also protecting communities from further disease spread for stronger outbreak control.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
How To Restore the Skin’s Microbiome From Over-sanitizing
While alcohol-based hand sanitizers are very useful in settings where there is an increase in the transmission of pathogens (such as hospitals), there are no additional health benefits to habitual hand sanitizing unless a person doesn’t have access to running water.
FDA warns of infection risk from reusable urological endoscopes
The agency said it had received more than 450 reports of infections or other issues in the last four years from reprocessed urological endoscopes, which are used to view or access the urinary tract. Three patient deaths were associated with these infections.
UHC, Henry Ford, HonorHealth deploy Xenex robots to reduce HAIs
Hospitals and health systems across the country are looking at disinfection through a new lens.
Researchers unlock clues to using “immune fingerprints” to diagnose bacterial infections
Scientists in Wales have potentially uncovered a new way to quickly identify bacterial infections using clues given off by a patient’s so-called immune fingerprint. Working with chronic kidney disease patients who acquired infections during dialysis, researchers at Cardiff University’s School of Medicine in the UK showed proof-of-concept that a person’s “immune fingerprint” reflected which organism […]
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Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Discover the top AI-powered EAP providers for 2026. Compare platforms like Kyan Health and Spring Health on triage speed, global reach, and clinical quality to transform workforce wellbeing.
Tiny traps disguised as human cells snap up viruses in a new take on anti-viral therapy
Viral infections are pesky, sneaky things. The infectious agents that cause maladies like influenza, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and Ebola hijack living cells and replicate, making it hard to destroy them without also harming an organism’s cells. And, they mutate to find new ways to attack cells. Erez Livneh and his small team at Vecoy Nanomedicines […]
Wow of the week: With a little bioengineering, E. coli becomes a pathogen-fighting superhero
Scientists in Singapore think there might be a way to fight microorganisms that cause infection with, well, other microorganisms that cause infection. Synthetic biologist Matthew Chang and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore bioengineered E. coli bacteria in a way that causes them to hunt down and kill the gram negative bacterium Pseudomonas […]
Bedside disinfector would bring patients into the HAI prevention strategy for hospitals
As the healthcare industry spends millions of dollars developing vaccines, large-scale disinfectors and hand washing initiatives for care providers, a Cleveland-area nurse and her husband are proposing a much simpler contribution to the fight against hospital-acquired infections. Encourage patients to clean their hands more, too. Hand hygiene, after all, is widely regarded as the key […]
How one children’s hospital cut surgical site infections by 60 percent
Surgical site infections are a nasty and persistent problem throughout the U.S. healthcare system, and affect as many as 5 percent of patients who undergo surgery. And with the rise of “superbugs,” or drug-resistant infections, the problem doesn’t appear to be going away any time soon. The cost to the U.S. health system of each […]
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.