As of Jan. 28, there are 4,474 confirmed cases and 107 deaths related to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, a respiratory infection originating in central China.  

The FDA on Jan. 17 sent a warning letter to Gojo Industries over false marketing claims the company made about its Purell hand sanitizer products, reports CNN Business.

Healthcare executives from Texas and South Dakota have won the American College of Healthcare Executives' Gold Medal Award and Robert S. Hudgens Memorial Award for Young Healthcare Executive of the Year for 2020.

Lyme disease is often misdiagnosed or goes undiagnosed, but research has halted because every stage of the disease is bitterly contested by scientists, Steven Phillips, MD, a specialist in treating complex infections, wrote in an opinion piece published by NBC News.

Patients at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital can now get check-ups in their own homes, reports NBC affiliate WFLA.

Barbershops may be an effective location to screen black men for diabetes who do not have a regular primary care physician, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Families of patients who died rate the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit higher than in other hospital units, according to a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Violent patient attacks against employees are common at San Francisco General Hospital's emergency department in part due to understaffing, current and former nurses told the San Francisco Chronicle.

A man climbed a fence surrounding Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Health Hospital and cut off oxygen to the entire hospital in December, according to the Star Tribune.

U.S. hospitals don't practice proper infection control practices and are ill-equipped to handle the new coronavirus or a future global contagion, according to an editorial by politician Betsy McCaughey published in The Wall Street Journal.

Johns Hopkins researchers in Baltimore have created an online dashboard to help track the spread of the coronavirus outbreak worldwide.

Racial or ethnic minority groups account for around one-fourth of the registered nurse workforce in the U.S., according to a new HHS report.

As of Jan. 27, there are 2,886 confirmed cases and 81 deaths related to the respiratory infection originating in Wuhan, China.  

Many women received inadequate care at VA North Texas Health Care System for years due to obstacles including physician shortages and limited resources, according to a federal report cited by Military Times.

Numerous patients described being restrained during emergency room visits and the lasting negative effects the experience had on their well-being, according to research published Jan. 24 in JAMA Network Open.

Three Native American men claim the Indian Health Service failed to protect them from sexual abuse by Stanley Patrick Weber, MD, during the 1990s, The Wall Street Journal reports.

After declining in the first two weeks of the year, flu activity jumped in the week ending Jan. 18, according to the CDC's most recent FluView report.

As of 2 p.m., Jan. 24, there are 939 confirmed cases of the novel respiratory infection originating in Wuhan, China. 

Pharmaceutical and medical device industry funding of patient groups is common, but few groups have policies that govern corporate sponsorship, and transparency about the funding is "inadequate," according to a study published in The BMJ.

Seattle Children's Hospital will provide "expertise on best practices, technical guidance, and training" in a new partnership with two Montana hospitals, according to The Bozeman Daily Chronicle.