Six cancer patients at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center developed a rare bacterial infection after a nurse gave them opioid injections diluted with tap water, according to a report published Aug. 7 in The New England Journal of Medicine and reported in The Washington Post.

An infant has contracted the first measles case in San Diego County this year.

When it comes to patient-centered care, children's hospitals often have a leg up. Why? Because they've mastered something many adult acute care hospitals have not: involving patients and families in strategic decision-making.

Health officials cited Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System for the 2017 death of a patient whom staff members failed to perform timely resuscitation on, according to a federal report cited by WLOX News.

The Minnesota Department of Health declared a hepatitis A outbreak in several counties Aug. 8.

Being exposed to the Clostridium difficile infection as an infant and becoming infected produces an immune response that could protect against contracting C. diff later in childhood, a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found.

Sentara Healthcare implemented a new sepsis detection system this year to help predict patients who may be at risk for the life-threatening condition, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

Health officials detected Legionella bacteria at Richmond, Va.-based Johnston-Willis Hospital, reports NBC affiliate WWBT.

Health officials on Aug. 6 confirmed the first death linked to a large Legionnaires' outbreak in Atlanta, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Health officials are urging Florida residents to take precautions against mosquitos after confirming a locally acquired case of Dengue virus.

Sustaining long-term process improvements can be a challenge for many hospitals.

The government shut down the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md., due to concerns about the facility's decontamination procedures, according to The New York Times.

Hundreds of patients in the U.S. and Europe have been sickened by infections transmitted through duodenoscopes, prompting medical experts to urge the Food and Drug Administration to force manufacturers to improve the devices or take them off the market, according to The New York Times.

A recent blog post by LogicStream analyzes the documentation burden nurses deal with and how health systems can alleviate this ongoing problem. 

CMS' Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule contains several changes to help combat antibiotic resistance among Medicare patients, which CMS Administrator Seema Verma outlined in an Aug. 2 blog post published in Health Affairs.

On Aug. 2, Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, MD, declared the hepatitis A outbreak in the state a public health emergency.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo poses a threat not only to the rest of Africa but also to the U.S., and the government should do more to help contain the outbreak, wrote the editorial board of Bloomberg.

Two physicians admitted they mistakenly placed a medical device in the wrong kidney during a 2017 procedure at Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, an error for which they are being investigated by the state health department, according to The Tennessean.

David Duvall, senior vice president and chief marketing, communications and experience officer of Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, discusses patient experience metrics, employee wellness and the importance of anticipating patient needs.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks 250-500 pediatric/adult ambulatory clinics to participate in its free 12-month program to decrease patients' exposure to unnecessary antibiotics, according to AAFP News.