Joseph Scalea, MD, physician at Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical Center, organized a research group to test whether drones could deliver organs, after experiencing a lag in receiving organs for his own transplant surgeries, according to IEEE Spectrum.

In the midst of the Camp Fire in Northern California, a paramedic team crawled through the doggie door of an abandoned house to set up a makeshift hospital in a garage after their ambulance melted, ultimately saving 13 people, according…

The Haskell, N.J.-based Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation completed a state-mandated patient separation Nov. 20, according to NJTV News.

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System entered a five-year contract with General Motors in August to provide healthcare services for the company's salaried employees and their families. 

After a funding cut forced the shutdown of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse website, nonprofit patient safety organization ECRI Institute launched the ECRI Guidelines Trust — a free portal to evidence-based guideline briefs and scorecards.

Public health workers are struggling to combat and contain the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to STAT.

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs studied the growing patient trend of medical tourism and provided six insights into how physicians should handle ethical issues if they arise, according to AMA Wire.

Two of the at least four individuals killed during a shooting at Chicago-based Mercy Hospital & Medical Center Nov. 19 were an emergency room physician and a first-year pharmacy resident, USA Today reports.

People are bearing more responsibility for selecting and paying for their own care, and those costs are rising rapidly.

Independent physicians and those working in physician-owned practices tend to be happier with work than hospital-employed physicians, according to a survey from Geneia, a provider of healthcare data, technology, business and education solutions.