Infectious Disease

When a severe summer storm left CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Winnsboro in rural East Texas without electricity for five days, telemedicine revealed itself to be an unexpected source of power. The Winnsboro hospital has been an Access TeleCare partner since 2017 […]

For the first time in almost 10 years, new guidance has been issued on the use of antibiotics after surgery. In a recently published report, antibiotic guidance now calls for physicians to cease the use of antibiotic prophylaxis immediately following surgery. The […]

First Case in 4 Years Documented in Texas’ Hood County For the first time since 2019, a confirmed case of measles has been recorded in Texas, occurring in Hood County. According to a report by the Texas Department of State Health Services, […]

Eighty percent of counties in the U.S. have no practicing infectious disease specialists, according to a 2020 study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. This translates to 208 million people without access to infectious disease care. Yet, the lack of available specialists doesn’t […]