HHS plans to fold the CDC's chronic disease center into the new Administration for a Healthy America. Experts fear for ...

The authors have each served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One misguided narrative is that the CDC should focus only on a “core mission” of combatting ...

The CDC has disbanded an advisory committee that provided guidance on infection control practices in health care facilities. Source: Tada Images - stock.adobe.com The executive order instructed ad ...

Last fall, the CDC advisory committee sent their formal recommendations for revising infection control in healthcare facilities to the CDC director. During the public comment period, there was ...

A health alert has been issued by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response ... according to the CDC. Many who are infected may need intensive care or limb amputations; about ...

“Without HICPAC’s public meetings, there is no longer any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings. This further undermines safety ...

Members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) voted Friday to defend what some have called weak standards of infection control for healthcare settings, agreeing ...

Hospitals are required to have antibiotic stewardship programs and infection control policies consistent with CDC/HICPAC guidance in order to maintain federal funding. Accrediting bodies like The ...

Several committee members of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee have received termination notices, MedPage Today reported April 29. 1. HICPAC develops guidance ...

“Without HICPAC’s public meetings, there is no longer any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings. This further undermines safety ...

The CDC has ended its healthcare infection control practices advisory committee to comply with President Donald Trump’s “continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy” executive order ...