Tori Whitacre Martonicz

Joshua Rhein, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, discusses whether obesity affects vaccine response and what can be done.

Reducing unnecessary and inappropriate urine cultures through EHR-focused interventions would be valuable in health care systems that have limited resources.

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST speaks with ICT® on narrowing down how many disinfecting products their facilities should have and the education that they need about the cleaners and checking their competency in using those products.

The HAC and Hospital VBP penalties were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic but are now back in place. Are they forcing hospitals to rethink/reestablish previous practices, and what is the impact?

Recently, an outbreak of Marburg virus disease occurred in Equatorial Guinea. Infection Control Today® learned more about this rare but severe and often fatal disease and what is being done to combat it.

Is the global community in danger of a fungal pandemic, as portrayed in the series The Last of Us? Infection Control Today® finds out.

With all the misinformation and confusion about what The Joint Commission (TJC) does and doesn't do, ICT went to TJC to find out. Listen to the detailed interview to find out what health care workers need to know.

A new study focuses on insights that can be used to create interventions for better hand hygiene adherence among all medical professionals.

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, continues her interview with ICT about why IPs' involvement with their facility's cleaning and disinfection programs is so critical.

Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is not as well-known as its relative, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), so here is the information that infection control and prevention personnel need to know about this respiratory virus.

Doe Kley, MPH, RN, CIC, LTC-CIP, T-CHEST, does a deep dive into what the key priorities infection preventionists and environmental hygienists should focus on in 2023. This is the first of 3 installments.

What do infection prevention and control personnel need to know about preparing for future pandemics? Maureen Hennessey, PhD, CPCC, CPHQ, SVP, and Cynthia Miller, MD, MPH, discuss their thoughts with ICT.

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2023 has research in COVID-19, mpox, hepatitis, and other viral infections, plus networking, and even Anthony Fauci, MD, speaking on his legacy.

What can the media do to better cover the "tripledemic," and where are all the advocacy groups for these infectious diseases?

The triple epidemic or “tripledemic” of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) may have peaked. What caused the confluence of these viruses to start, and how can we stop it from happening again?

Experts from around the world shared new data about cryptococcus at the recent International Conference on Cryptococcus & Cryptococcosis (ICCC) in Uganda.

Can a patient catch C difficile if the previous hospital room occupant had it?

Could live attenuated vaccines and intranasal vaccines be the answer for RSV, COVID-19, and even cancer tumors?

How can food service and health care workers prevent the spread of norovirus? Keeping employees at home, using the correct products the right way, and more.

Are norovirus cases going to skyrocket, or will the pandemic slowdown of this infectious disease continue?

Nation Home Infusion Association addresses the media's coverage of the recent limited home infusion therapy study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A study clearly shows that surgical site infections (SSIs) can be reduced by changing surgical gloves and instruments before the closing abdominal wound closure.

Moderna announced encouraging news about its RSV mRNA-1345 vaccine and plans to submit for regulatory approval in the first half of 2023.

New study shows home infusion therapy staff may have significant barriers to infection-surveillance training, and this could be leading to higher infection rates.

Have the CDC and EPA given enough correct guidance on how to use cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic, or is it “fundamentally flawed”?

In this third installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues the one father's story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

A recent study attempted to estimate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to their pets and identify the risk factors, including food and water bowls and human-animal contact.

In this second installment of 3, Infection Control Today® continues a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines and how it affects the entire family.

However, improved IPC measures were not sufficient to protect HCP from occupational exposures during periods of high community incidence.

In this first installment of 3, Infection Control Today® presents a personal story of how sepsis can enter central lines, and how it affects the entire family.