Medical students with negative racial attitudes are less likely to choose to practice in minority or underserved areas, according to a study published Aug. 1 in Academic Medicine.

Health authorities have discovered a worldwide increase in resistance to HIV drugs, according to Nature.

A team of surgeons at New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers University have developed a new procedure based on an old plastic surgery technique, which they used to save a patient's life after he suffered from complications following removal of a cancerous…

Researchers calculated a baseline measure of empathy among medical students, which could be used to assess future applicants' capacity for the soft skill, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.  

MedStar Health Research Institute in Hyattsville, Md., is tapping machine learning to help guide patient safety efforts in Pennsylvania.

Rwanda closed parts of its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo after authorities identified a third case of Ebola in the border city of Goma July 31, according to BBC News.

A patient died July 29 at Unity Center for Behavioral Health less than a year after state and federal officials cleared the Portland, Ore.-based facility of a different patient deaths investigation, according to The Oregonian.

Several nurses have been featured in the news lately for saving people's lives while off the job.

SpecGx, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, was the top opioid manufacturer between 2006 and 2012, accounting for 37.7 percent of the pills on the U.S. market, according to Drug Enforcement Administration data published by The Washington Post.

Aug. 1 marks one year since the Democratic Republic of the Congo's government declared an Ebola outbreak in North Kivu province, and the country still needs urgent aid from the international community, according to a joint statement from the World…