To cut costs and maximize profits, hospitals in the United States and many other countries
are outsourcing such tasks as cleaning and food preparation to private contractors. In …

Background Many health care workers are using smartphones and wearable devices
without an enforced cleaning standard to prevent the spread of bacteria to patients. To our …

From the cheaply made “tax-shelter” films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary
“eco-horror,” Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina …

Hand hygiene is a long-standing concern in the health sciences literature, but its emergence
as a public health issue in the news is a more recent development. Drawing on Alan Hunt's …

(See the article by Kamboj et al18 on pages 8–15.) Clostridium difficile has become known
as a pathogen responsible for a considerable number of avoidable healthcare-acquired …

Mass media, in their changing forms, remain a core component of any health system,
providing communication channels and framing health care problems and their solutions …

The proposition that the disclosure of medical adverse events and transparency in the
healthcare sector can improve patient safety is not new. Disclosure of medical adverse …

Background: Novel Coronavirus disease 2019 is a pandemic infectious disease that was
first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei China which is caused by …