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NEW YORK POST: The killers that even top hospitals just wink at

Worried about breast cancer? Or AIDS? Bad as these dreaded diseases are, hospital infections kill more people yearly than both of them combined. Amazing — something caused by the hospital is so deadly.

NEW YORK POST: Everyone gets it wrong on the Legionnaires’ outbreak

As the death toll rises to 12 in New York’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo are playing politics, passing the buck. But the truth is, much of the blame belongs...

NEWSMAX: Hospital Infections: Strategies to Save Yourself or a Loved One

When Betsy McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York, she was horrified by the number of her constituents who complained that their loved ones had died from infections they contracted in hospitals.

WGBH NEWS: The Crisis Of Antibiotic Resistance: The Germs Are Winning

Pamela Woodbury lives in a two-story house in Spencer, Mass. Three years ago, Woodbury was on her way to work when she took a spill on her steps and broke her ankle. Surgeons at...

NEW YORK POST: Hospital germ horror

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new data show the agency vastly underestimated the threat of a superbug raging through our hospitals and nursing...

ICT: How Clean are the Pillows in Your Hospital?

When patients are admitted into a hospital room that has been prepared for a new patient, they anticipate the room has been properly disinfected and is free from harmful pathogens known to cause healthcare-associated...