Here are five updates on issues surrounding "Medicare for All" proposals published by Becker's Hospital Review since July 15.

Here are five memorable quotes that CMOs from Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, Geisinger Health Plan, AmeriHealth Caritas and Cigna's behavioral health unit shared with Becker's in the past two months:

The production and shipment of flu vaccines for the upcoming flu season has been delayed, giving patients a shorter time frame in which to get vaccinated, according to ABC affiliate WTNH.

One Utahn died and seven others were sickened after undergoing weight-loss surgery in Tijuana, Mexico, according to CBS affiliate KUTV.

Finding a rural hospital in Wisconsin that provides obstetrics has become increasingly harder, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, which cites a report by the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health.

Burnout is pervasive among clinicians. It affects 2 in 5 physicians and 3 in 5 nurses, Ascension Medical Group CMO Baligh Yehia, MD, noted in a recent LinkedIn post. Burnout directly affects the quality of care patients receive and costs…

Stroke patients transferred to a hospital by a helicopter ambulance can receive a thrombectomy much faster than those transferred on the ground, according to a study released July 22 at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's minister of health stepped down July 22 after losing his role as head of the country's Ebola outbreak response, reports Science.

The Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., and Harvard Business School in Boston recently unveiled a new joint master's degree program in the life sciences.

El Paso, Texas, is experiencing its first measles outbreak in more than two decades, reports ABC affiliate KVIA.