Top-ranked hospitals for heart care do not always demonstrate better patient outcomes than nonranked hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

The CDC confirmed 10 additional cases of acute flaccid myelitis, bringing the total number of children infected with the rare, polio-like illness to 116 this year, reports CNN.

A nurse was fired for violating St. Louis-based Mercy Hospital South's policy requiring a flu shot, sparking a protest outside the hospital, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

New Jersey health officials on Nov. 27 confirmed the deaths of two premature infants linked to an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria in the neonatal intensive care unit at Newark, N.J.-based University Hospital, reports northjersey.com.

MedStar Mobile Healthcare — an ambulance provider in Fort Worth, Texas — has seen triple the amount of flu-related emergency calls this year compared to 2017, according to the Star-Telegram.

A team of surgeons successfully completed North Carolina's first abdominal wall transplant, according to The Chronicle.

The American College of Physicians seeks to clarify the role patients and their families play in their own care in a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Seventy-nine-year-old Bruce Anderson became the oldest patient in Indiana to receive a liver transplant, which calls into question the age barrier many patients meet when searching for a viable organ transplant program, according the Indy Star.

Veterans Health Administration medical centers saw a drop in reported adverse events in the operating room that were linked to patient harm, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

A research team at the Brunel University London conducted a study published in BMJ Open examining the accuracy of physicians identifying how long a terminally ill patient has to live.