Infections

Updated at 10:50 p.m. March 15, with comments from school and county officialsDozens of school districts across the St. Louis region will close this week…

Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis has cut testing for urinary tract infections nearly in half after making changes to its electronic health records…

Researchers at Washington University have developed a new vaccine to prevent urinary tract infections caused by catheters. This type of infection is the…

Saint Louis County is seeing an unusual spike in a bacterial disease that affects children in daycare centers.The county has received 71 reports of…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 31, 2013: In an era of increasingly high-tech medical care, some potentially deadly health…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 16, 2012 - News of a deadly meningitis outbreak in more than a dozen states has fortunately…

Soil bacteria may be helping to make disease-causing bacteria resistant to antibiotics.That’s according to a new study out of Washington University.Lead…

For the first time, the Illinois Department of Health is making information about surgical infections in Illinois hospitals available to the public.The…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 28, 2011 - The risk of infections following surgery at St. Louis Children's Hospital is far…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 2, 2010 - Want to know which area hospital offers the best care for a heart attack or pneumonia?…