Vitamin C infusions may improve recovery time and survival rates for sepsis patients, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Clinicians at Indianapolis-based Community Health Network mistakenly administered insulin shots to 16 students at a nearby school, reports Fox59.

The National Institutes of Health aims to create a more protective, longer-lasting flu vaccine through a new program called the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers.

About 20 percent of patients who were hospitalized for cardiac arrest were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

An automated chest X-ray interpretation system that uses artificial intelligence was able to identify key findings in X-rays accurately in about 10 seconds, according to researchers from Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City and Stanford (Calif.) University.

This season's flu shot may offer limited protection since two of the four strains included in the vaccine do not match the most dominant strains seen in the Southern Hemisphere's flu season, which ended in September, according to STAT. 

The death of a Phoenix hospital patient visited by an unknown man captured readers' attention the most in September.

October marks the three-year anniversary of Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, stepping into her role as chief quality and transformation officer at Evanston, Ill.-based NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center resumed elective surgeries Sept. 27 after the hospital suspended medical procedures due to mold contamination in a surgical equipment sterilization room, according to the Los Angeles Times.  

Several research teams from the Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan received a collective $25.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to support projects addressing the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction and abuse.