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…

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…

In 2017, New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery implemented a Controlled Substances Task Force to limit the risk of opioid misuse among the roughly 32,000 patients who undergo orthopedic surgeries at the hospital annually.

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.

The overall drug overdose death rate in urban and rural U.S. counties nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2017, according to new CDC data reported by STAT.

Staff members abused multiple patients with illegal restraints, seclusion and other violations at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., a new report from a disability rights group claims, according to The Washington City Paper.

Physicians at Memphis, Tenn.-based Le Bonheur Children's Hospital have reconstructed a voice box for the first time in history, according to WHDH.