The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in partnership with APIC, IDSA, and PIDS, has released a new position paper urging U.S. healthcare facilities to strengthen their Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs. Citing vulnerabilities exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper outlines key recommendations for enhancing IPC leadership, resources, and accountability to protect patients, improve healthcare quality, and reduce costs. The societies call for IPC programs to be recognized as essential to healthcare operations and advocate for revised standards and a dyad leadership model to drive sustainable improvements.

A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology is helping premature babies avoid blood transfusions, thanks to new research and collaboration between researchers at Intermountain Health and the University of Utah.

Research reveals inequalities in MMR vaccination that may contribute to measles outbreaks and epidemics, emphasising the importance of socioeconomic and demographic data in driving public health efforts.

A new report calls for an end to austerity, and sustainable long-term economic and social policies for coalfield areas.

Researchers from University of Staffordshire, University of Cambridge and University of Leeds have examined the long-term impact of the loss of the coal industry in former coal-producing areas of the UK.

The report focuses on a number of coalfield areas; Fife and South Lanarkshire (Scotland) Barnsley and Stoke on Trent (England) and Neath/Port Talbot and Merthyr Tydfil (Wales).

Based in some of the most deprived regions of the UK, the researchers claim that successive Governments have failed these communities and are calling for a new type of sustained and long-term industrial policy.