The way patients experience pain can be directly influenced by providers' expectations of how successful the treatment will be, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Use of an electronic advisory along with educating prescribers can help significantly reduce antibiotic prescribing for adults with acute bronchitis, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Researchers have pinpointed enterovirus as the likely cause of acute flaccid myelitis, the polio-like condition affecting young children across the country, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

Hospital outpatient surgery departments have better patient safety practices than ambulatory surgery centers, but both have problems regarding clinician certification and training, according to The Leapfrog Group report released Oct. 22. 

Forty-seven percent of clinical leaders, along with 40 percent of executives and 31 percent of clinicians, are unsure if it's worth it for organizations to use patient-reported outcome measures, according to an NEJM Catalyst Insights Council report published Oct. 3. 

Patients treated at the nation's best performing hospitals have a 49 percent lower mortality risk rate than the poorest performing hospitals, according to a 2020 Healthgrades analysis published Oct. 22. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai was granted $25 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how environmental factors influence people's health, according to an Oct. 22 news release. 

Healthmark Industries is proud to announce Kevin Anderson as their newest Clinical Education Coordinator.

Medicare patients with a high fatality risk after surgery have higher 30-day survival rates at major teaching hospitals compared to nonteaching hospitals, according to a study published Oct. 15 in Annals of Surgery.

Within a day, North Carolina officials confirmed the fourth death in the state from Legionnaires' disease and a lawsuit was filed that claims hot tubs at a state fair are to blame for the outbreak affecting more than 100 people, according to The Charlotte Observer. 

Nurses who regularly use chemical disinfectants in the workplace may be at risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Washington, D.C.-based St. Elizabeths Hospital enters its fourth week without running water after Pseudomonas and Legionella bacteria survived a water system flush Oct. 11, according to The Washington Post.

Philadelphia police arrested a woman Oct. 17 on charges of fraudulently practicing as a nurse, CBS Philly reports.

The vaccine exemption rate for kindergarteners was 2.5 percent in the 2018-19 school year, up from 2.3 percent in 2017-18, according to CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Oct. 18.  

Low vaccination rates in adolescents and teenagers have some New York medical groups calling for the creation of a 16-year-old immunization visit, according to local CBS affiliate Channel 3 News.

North Carolina health officials on Oct. 17 reported the first case of Legionnaires' disease in an individual who did not attend a recent state fair, which is believed to be the source of a major outbreak occurring in the state, according to ABC affiliate News 13 reports. 

Most office-based physicians who provide treatment for sexually transmitted diseases reported not having the recommended medications for gonorrhea and syphilis on site, according to a CDC report.

Michigan health officials are not required to investigate when psychiatric patients die within two days of a hospital discharge, a loophole that some lawmakers want to close, reports ABC affiliate 7 Action News.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security held a pandemic preparedness exercise Oct. 18 in Baltimore to highlight the economic threats of global disease outbreaks.

The CDC reported 180 new cases of vaping-related illnesses this week, bringing the national case count to 1,479 as of Oct. 15.