West Virginia has the highest rate of flu vaccine coverage among adults, according to a new ranking from the personal finance website WalletHub.

The risk of developing a heart valve infection in hospitals is increasing, according to a study published in The American Journal of Cardiology.

North Carolina health officials are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that has killed one person and hospitalized 55 others. 

The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha received a $1.67 million federal grant to place skilled nurses in communities with limited healthcare resources, Fox 42 KPTM reports. 

Nearly 40 percent of critical care nurses in a University of Virginia Medical Center study said they failed to receive palliative care education in the last two years, according to a study published in Critical Care Nurse.

An immersive, virtual reality experience to educate pediatric patients before a chest X-ray helped reduce their anxiety and distress as well as the procedure time, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

In today's era of healthcare technology used for advancing, diagnosing, preventing and treating preventable diseases, simple human interventions are oftentimes overlooked and underrated as measures of combating diseases. 

Neha Vyas, MD, has spent more than two decades practicing as a family physician in Cleveland. In that time, she's picked up several healthy habits from her own patients, which she outlined in an op-ed for U.S. News & World…

Risk-adjusted mortality rates are key indicators of care quality. Hospitals focus on these metrics in an effort to improve patient outcomes, as well as to ensure fair reimbursement for their services.

Seventy-seven percent of nurses correctly predicted patient deterioration, with accuracy rates significantly higher in nurses with more than a year of experience, according to a Mayo Clinic study published in JAMIA Open.