Four nurses who have saved lives outside the workplace:

President Donald Trump's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021, released Feb. 10, would eliminate several nursing programs under the HHS and Department of Education.  

Concordia University, St. Paul (Minn.) is creating a program to help nursing students at its sister school, Concordia University-Portland (Ore.), complete their degrees in Portland after the campus shutters at the end of the spring semester.

The World Health Organization met with tech leaders at Facebook's headquarters Feb. 13 to brainstorm ways to address the misinformation surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, reports CNBC.

Stroke survivors commonly experience depression in the early months of recovery, and it can persist for a full year, new research shows.

University of California San Francisco is launching an online program to help nurse practitioners get national certification to provide psychiatric and mental health services.

The CDC estimates flu has caused 26 million illnesses, 250,000 hospitalizations and 14,000 deaths this season, according to the agency's most recent FluView report.

After CMS regulators said Overland Park, Kan.-based Pinnacle Regional Hospital put patients in "immediate jeopardy" in June 2018, the agency linked two patient deaths to several failures by hospital staff, according to NPR affiliate KCUR.

People who vape may experience biological changes in their DNA similar to those seen in smokers linked to cancer and other serious diseases, according to a study published in Epigenetics.

A rural health research and advisory firm released its annual lists naming the top 100 critical access hospitals and the top 100 rural and community hospitals for 2020.

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes among U.S. youths increased at constant rates every year between 2002 and 2015, according to CDC data.

Florida lawmakers are considering legislation that would require hospitals to conduct anonymous employee surveys on patient safety culture, reports the Tampa Bay Times.

As of 11 a.m., Feb. 14, the coronavirus has sickened 64,460 and has resulted in 1,384 deaths. Globally, 7,171 people have recovered from the illness.

A free six-month program aims to help rural hospitals and health systems improve care for pregnant women and newborns.

A majority of Americans think that coronavirus is a "real threat" (66 percent), while about a third (27 percent) think the threat is "blown out of proportion," according to a survey conducted by PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist.

There were two separate instances of physical abuse against patients at Portland-based Maine Medical Center last year — one involving a nurse and another involving a security guard, a CMS report found.

Cases of deadly fungus Candida auris in the U.S. rose to 1,018 by the end of 2019, the CDC reported.

To modernize healthcare practices, regulations limiting nurses and physician assistants should be revised, according to a perspective piece published Feb. 12 in The New England Journal of Medicine. 

Health officials in a southwest Chicago suburb are urging patients to check their immunization records after a well-known pediatrician left a suicide note suggesting he did not always administer required vaccines, reports The Washington Post.

About one-third of infectious disease physicians practicing in the U.S. are burned out, according to Medscape's 2020 "Infectious Disease Physician Lifestyle, Happiness & Burnout" report.