Doctors will be able to detain coronavirus patients who refuse to comply with infection prevention and control protocols, the HSE has confirmed.

The incidence of superbug infection in Nenagh Hospital during 2018 was almost 10 times the target set by the HSE at a time when the use of penicillin, an antibiotic, had also increased.

University students are being urged to practise safe sex following a dramatic rise in the numbers of young people in Ireland diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases.

Poor cleaning of reusable bedpans and failure to test water outlets for the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s Disease were among the multiple infection-control failures that left patients at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) exposed to significant risk.

Overcrowding in the State’s busiest maternity hospital left vulnerable newborns at an increased risk of infection, it has emerged.

A study found that implanting faeces from a healthy mouse into a sick animal's bum wiped out the illness.

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has returned home after a week-long stay in hospital in Cape Town.

A South African foundation says retired archbishop Desmond Tutu is receiving an intensive course of anti-biotics to treat a “stubborn infection”.

Contact lenses may increase the risk of eye infections by altering the make-up of bacteria living on the eyeball, research has shown.

Overcrowded isolation units in a cancer ward and unsafe injection practices are two of the most serious findings from a watchdog’s inspection of hospitals.

Dentists are reporting an almost 40% increase in the numbers of patients requiring hospitalisation due to oral infections.

Up to 80,000 people could die in an outbreak of a drug-resistant infection because of new superbugs, a British government forecast has warned.

A simple blood test could soon tell doctors within two hours whether a patient has a viral or bacterial infection, thereby cutting the need for antibiotics in many cases.