Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System's surgical redesign program, ProvenRecovery, has cut hospital stays for some surgery patients in half since the pilot launched, the health system said.

Despite decades of effort, there is neither an AIDS vaccine nor a universal flu vaccine — and two obstacles stand in the way to faster vaccine progress, Gregory Poland, MD, director of the vaccine research group at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo…

The out-of-office pediatrician gets the call no one wants to hear: a mother has gone into labor and the baby’s heart rate is decelerating – a life threatening condition.

Virginia's hospitals, emergency physicians and the state's behavioral health agency have developed guidelines for evaluating psychiatric patients to ensure they are admitted to the appropriate facility, according to the Staunton News Leader.

The CDC is urging Americans to avoid eating any form of romaine lettuce amid a new outbreak of E. coli infections, according to a Nov. 20 alert from the CDC.

Machine learning could help clinicians better predict patients' emergency hospitalization risk, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.

As frontline responders to gun-related shootings and deaths, healthcare providers have an obligation to talk about gun violence and advocate for more research and policy-based prevention strategies, according to a blog in Health Affairs.

Neurologists at Winfield, Ill.-based Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital can now diagnose patients' strokes and set a course of treatment before they even arrive at the hospital thanks to the facility's telestroke program, reports AMA Wire.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is encouraging physicians to offer preventive medication for individuals at high risk of contracting HIV, marking the first time the panel of medical experts proposed such a recommendation, reports The Washington Post.  

Several women spoke to NBC 5 News about the sexual harassment they witnessed at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, claiming the behavior has been going on for years.