A California physician is accused of using dirty syringes on two pediatric patients, and the state medical board is looking into the case, according to San Diego TV station KGTV.

The Ebola death toll has hit 1,506 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of June 22, according to a report from the World Health Organization.

Texas is expected to face a shortage of almost 16,000 nurses by 2030, according to a report from the National Center for Health Workforce.

Whole genome sequencing may be an effective method to track the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals, according to research presented June 23 at the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting in San Francisco.

Clinicians at Beaumont Hospital, Farmington Hills (Mich.) successfully revived a male patient who had no vital signs for 20 minutes, reports Fox 2 Detroit.

Contamination of medical students' cellphones with drug-resistant bacteria is not uncommon, according to new research presented at ASM Microbe, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology ending June 24 in San Francisco.

Patients heavily colonized with Candida auris can contaminate their surroundings by shedding the deadly fungus from their skin, new research shows.

Researchers have identified a gene that makes the salmonella bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics in a human patient in the U.S.

The cardiovascular disease death rate has fallen by just 4 percent since 2011 after a decrease of over 70 percent in the last six decades, and the death rate rose 1.5 percent for middle-aged Americans, according to CDC statistics cited in The Wall Street Journal.

The FDA has formally ended its Alternative Summary Reporting program, which allowed device manufactures to request exemptions from the requirement to file reports on certain events and risks from devices, according to a news release issued June 21.

The California Department of Public Health collectively issued $437,425 in fines to eight California hospitals for licensing compliance issues that caused or were likely to cause patient harm or death.

Nine states in the U.S. allow minors to receive vaccinations without their parents' permission, according to a report from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

California's Assembly Health Committee on June 20 passed a bill that would crack down on physicians who are handing out inappropriate medical vaccine exemptions, reports the Los Angeles Times.

A weekend shooting inside a patient room at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs left two people dead, The Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

Seventy-one percent of the public says they have heard of and know the meaning of antibiotic resistance, according to a data note from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Researchers using cutting-edge technology could be close to developing a universal flu vaccine, according to the PBS News Hour.

Failure to adequately train housekeeping staff may have contributed to growing rates of potentially deadly infections at Loma Linda, Calif.-based Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital, according to a report released June 18 from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.

The CDC updated its final report June 21 on the 2018-19 flu season, which lasted 21 weeks to become the longest season in a decade.

Applications open July 1 for The Joint Commission and American Heart Association's two new heart attack certification programs, Acute Heart Attack Ready and Primary Heart Attack Center, according to a post from The Joint Commission's blog.

CMS will terminate Phoenix-based Hacienda HealthCare's Medicaid contract July 3, reports The Arizona Republic.