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.

Tweets by the National Rifle Association telling medical professionals to "stay in their lane" drew new criticism after two medical professionals, including one physician, were killed in a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19, USA Today…

Sixty-five percent of Americans characterize antibiotic resistance as a public health problem, according to a survey commissioned by Research!America in collaboration with the Infectious Disease Society of America.

A study published in examined Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology multidrug-resistant organism transmission between the environment and patients in a hospital setting.