Phoenix Children's created a new division of infectious diseases and appointed Dr. Wassim Ballan as chief.

A new study from researchers in the U.K. suggests monkeypox spread may occur up to four days before symptoms surface, and that presymptomatic transmission might be more "substantial" than previously thought. 

Bacterial infections associated with injectable drugs resulted in more than $1 billion in hospital charges in 2019 in New Jersey, Gothamist reported Nov. 2.

Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston will offer nursing students financial assistance through a new tuition reimbursement program, the health system said Nov. 1. 

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Uganda has risen to 130, including 43 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. 

In the coming months, the U.S. will likely see an increase in COVID-19 cases that is less severe than last winter's omicron surge, experts told Scientific American in a Nov. 1 report.

Here are eight COVID-19-related research findings Becker's has covered since Oct. 7: 

Four hospitals received Magnet designation for the first time in October, while another 10 were redesignated, according to the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Researchers at NYU Langone Health in New York City found COVID-19 alone, and not the initial use of antibiotics, damages the gut microbiome.

Physicians in the emergency department at Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital have become the first in the U.S. to use a rapid blood test to evaluate adult patients with concussions outside of a clinical trial. 

During the 2021-2022 influenza season, central Missouri saw a high prevalence of people coinfected with COVID-19 and the flu, according to a study involving 462 patients. 

The global monkeypox outbreak still constitutes a public health emergency, the World Health Organization determined during its third meeting on the matter. 

The U.S. has seen a modest increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the last two weeks, according to HHS data compiled by The New York Times. 

Physicians overwhelmingly want to keep up with new clinical data to improve experiences for them and their patients, a Doximity report found. The problem is they are often too overwhelmed to do so effectively.

Ten moves from nurses unions across the country that Becker's has covered since Oct. 3: 

Below are six hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings for chief quality officers. 

Below are eight hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

With many children's hospitals facing unprecedented capacity issues amid a surge in  respiratory syncytial virus, flu season admissions at the highest level in 13 years and highly transmissible omicron subvariants gaining prevalence nationwide, hospitals are bracing for a difficult winter. 

For the first time, researchers have observed that respiratory syncytial virus and influenza viruses can merge to create a hybrid virus capable of evading the immune system, according to findings published Oct. 24 in Nature Microbiology.

COVID-19 presents unique challenges for caregivers not present in other patients including in managing infection, engaging support services and patient independence, a study done by researchers at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan found.