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The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration is seeing positive results from its campaign to reduce healthcare-associated infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Spending on drugs costing more than $1,000 monthly has increased significantly over the past five years, a HHS Inspector General report found, according to The Wall Street Journal.

For the third year, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation will offer a fishing trip with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter to top-performing healthcare institutions.

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, said Zika is still a large threat and people should not forgo protective measures against the infection, according to STAT.

Providers spanning the nation often fear malpractice cases which can be both timely and costly, leading Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Rep. Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.)  to say tort reform will be integral to their ACA replacement plan.…

Through 2024, a Transparency Market Research report projects the Asia-Pacific region to rapidly expand in the hospital-acquired treatment market.

Researchers identified the most common drugs associated with medication errors among registered nurses and defined key strategies to reduce ME incidents, according to Medscape.

Medical errors and CMS quality reporting captured the attention of Becker's ASC Review readers in 2016.

A Persistence Market Research report analyzes the key trends fueling the global infection control market growth, according to medGadget.

The Association for Professional Infection Control and Epidemiology released its "Voice for Infection Prevention: Public Policy Agenda" outline the organization's key advocacy focus for 2017.