Nearly 89 percent of school-aged children do not receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine before traveling internationally, a practice recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A patient with limited English proficiency was turned away from her MRI appointment at Bronson Battle Creek (Mich.) Hospital Dec 2. after staff told her there was not an interpreter available, according to USA Network affiliate the Battle Creek Enquirer.

The Missouri Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the first three flu-related deaths of the 2019-20 season Dec. 10.

HHS granted Sanofi Pasteur a $226 million contract to increase the country's capacity to produce a pandemic flu vaccine, according to AHA News.

Thirty-three patients contracted salmonella, likely after eating contaminated fruit, at several healthcare facilities in southeastern Pennsylvania, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Over a span of nine years, Lyme disease claims in the U.S. increased 117 percent, from 0.027 percent of all private medical claims in 2007 to 0.058 percent in 2018, according to a FAIR Health analysis released Dec. 10. 

Randolph, Vt.-based Gifford Medical Center achieved a 57 percent decrease in antibiotic use after implementing new protocols from the hospital's Antibiotic Stewardship Committee.

Emergency responders rushed to Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital Dec. 9 after a white powder substance was discovered on the premises, according to Fox 61. 

The CDC identified Dank Vapes as the brand of vaping products most commonly linked to lung illnesses, reports CNBC.

Montebello, Calif.-based Beverly Hospital has achieved significant improvements in its hospital-acquired infection rates since implementing Lean management principles in 2017, according to Dr. Alfonso Torress-Cook, the hospital's director of epidemiology.

Three attacks against Baton Rouge, La.-based medical professionals by patients have been reported over the past two weeks, according to local news source The Advocate.

Three months after a Nevada man received a bone marrow transplant, tests revealed the DNA in his blood had been replaced by the DNA of his donor, a man he barely knew, according to The New York Times.

Current and former Mount Sinai Hospital employees said staffing shortages and high patient volumes are creating serious patient safety issues in its emergency department, which one nurse called "a war zone," reports the New York Post.

More than 50 police officers raided Norcross, Ga.-based Lakeview Behavioral Health Dec. 6 after reports of unexplained patient injuries at the facility, according to local news station WSB-TV.

Children's Medical Center Dallas, part of Children's Health system, moved 28 cardiac intensive care patients and relocated surgeries to other areas of its facility after routine air testing revealed higher-than-normal levels of Aspergillus and Penicillium molds, according to CNN.

A flesh-eating bacterial infection tied to black tar heroin has killed seven people in San Diego,  the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency reported Dec. 4. 

Flu activity in the U.S. has been rising over the past four weeks, with nine of 10 regions at or above their baseline activity for the week ending Nov. 30, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report.

An estimated 140,000 people died from measles in 2018, a 55 percent increase from an all-time low of 90,000 deaths reported in 2016, according to a new report from the CDC and WHO.  

In a lawsuit filed Dec. 5 against UNC Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C., the parents of a 3-year-old patient who died after heart surgery claim the hospital did not disclose internal concerns about its care quality, The New York Times reports.

The U.S. should consider impaired financial decision-making an early sign of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, Eric Chess, MD, director of the Financial Security and Cognitive Health Initiative at the University of Denver's Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging, argued in an opinion piece published Dec. 5 by STAT.