Stopping infections might seem impossible, but it is quite simple. Every organism has six “links” upon which the chain of infection can be broken; breaking any link helps to ensure microbial ...

Findings highlight the importance of infection prevention measures and personalized heart failure care.

However, the time course of infection is rarely known, and only a retrospective construction is possible from postmortem material obtained from individuals who died at various stages of the disease.

People hospitalized because of infections — almost any infections — are at substantially increased risk years later for heart failure, according to collaborative research by the University of ...