A group of medical personnel and volunteers opened a medical triage unit and shelter for refugees from the deadliest wildfire in California history, according to The Sacramento Bee.

Mayer Katz, MD, retired surgeon of Lewes, Del.-based Beebe Healthcare, will be featured on the PBS show "We'll Meet Again," and will be reunited with the Vietnam veteran he saved more than 50 years ago, reports Delaware.com.

The World Health Organization issued a 127-page surveillance report on antibiotic consumption, which highlights large discrepancies in how the medications are used worldwide.

Just weeks after its highly anticipated launch, Driver — a startup that uses an app to match cancer patients with clinical trials — has shut down, according to STAT.

Cleveland Clinic-Medina (Ohio) Hospital went into lockdown Tuesday afternoon after reports of an active shooter in the hospital's medical office building, though the reports were later proven to be unsubstantiated, according to Cleveland.com.

Although patient falls in the operating room are rare, hospital staff can prevent patient harm by understanding how these incidents occur, according to a study published in the AORN Journal.

The maternal mortality rate has been climbing in the U.S., but that trend is reversing in California, according to The Washington Post.

A study published in Vaccine examined influenza vaccine effectiveness for people with high-risk conditions.

Researchers found overdose mortality rates in the United States reached an estimated 63,632 deaths in 2016, mirroring reports of increased drug overdoses in similar high-income countries, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Two more children at the Wanaque (N.J.) Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation were diagnosed with adenovirus over the weekend of Nov. 11-12, according to northjersey.com.