To help raise awareness of the importance of appropriate antibiotic use in the fight against antibiotic resistance, the CDC shared five ways healthcare leaders can participate in Antibiotic Awareness Week (Nov. 12-18).

Health officials will launch a clinical trial testing if experimental Ebola therapies improve reported Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak, according to STAT.

A microbiologic surveillance study revealed about 10 percent of linens tested positive for Mucorales, a type of fungus, at 20 percent of the hospitals included in the analysis. The study was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The ongoing wildfires continue to char Northern and Southern California, blanketing parts of the state in smoke and ash and prompting the Bay Area and South Coast Air Quality Management Districts to issue smoke advisories Nov. 9., according to Wired.

City officials and public health officials in Sacramento, Calif., began distributing special breathing masks to unsheltered people and residents as smoke from the region's wildfires reached "emergency" levels, according to Capital Public Radio.

Even before graduation, many future physicians have a number hanging over their heads that influences their chosen specialty: debt accrued throughout their medical education, the American Medical Association stated in a Nov. 12 blog post.

Former Boston-based Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier, MD, waded into the debate over faculty candidate diversity statements this past weekend, calling the requirement "an affront to academic freedom," according to Inside Higher Ed.

Aspiring physicians are learning harmful ways to discuss abortion and medical schools are not doing much to stop it, a physician wrote in a STAT op-ed.

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined the short- and long-term outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection in the elderly.

After the Department of Veterans Affairs released its annual hospital ratings this fall, the Atlanta VA facility dropped to the bottom, while West Haven, Conn.'s facility rose to the top, leaving questions as to why these ratings changed so significantly, The New…