The CDC released three new online courses in infection prevention developed by a team led by the American Hospital Association's Health Research & Educational Trust.

A new study on guidelines aimed at lowering opioid prescriptions to prevent addiction shows the potential success — and challenges — of changing prescribing habits, according to NPR.

A state law in Virginia allows patients with dementia to be involuntarily committed to state psychiatric hospitals if they are deemed to be a threat to others or themselves, a phenomenon also seen in several other states, according to The…

Thousands of anti-vaccine advocates flooded a New York court house Aug. 14 in support of a lawsuit to block the state's new law banning religious exemptions for school vaccinations, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Burundi is the latest country to start vaccinating health workers as a preventive measure against Ebola.

Massachusetts health officials on Aug. 10 confirmed the state's first human case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus since 2013.

Temple University's hospital and health sciences campus were placed on lockdown Wednesday evening when a gunman blocks away fired shots from a home that wounded six Philadelphia police officers after they attempted to serve a narcotics warrant, resulting in a…

Nearly 14 percent of internal medicine residents reported experiencing bullying by someone in a senior position during their training program in 2016, according to a study published in JAMA.

A clinical trial has had a 90 percent success rate in treating the deadliest strain of tuberculosis, which is resistant to the four types of antibiotics typically used to fight the disease, according to The New York Times.

Incidents involving retained foreign objects were the most common sentinel event in the first half of 2019, according to data The Joint Commission released Aug. 14.