A federal lawsuit over a health system's mandatory flu shot policy captured readers' attention the most in October.

The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution Oct. 31, urging all armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo to abide by international law and immediately halt attacks in outbreak zones, according to an update from the Center for…

Patients' risk of having a healthcare-associated infection was 16 percent lower in 2015 than in 2011, a CDC research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

To ensure physicians support quality and cost goals, health systems should consistently share cost data and clinical evidence with physicians, regardless of whether they're affiliated with or directly employed by a hospital, three physicians write in Harvard Business Review.

Patients who had a certain drug-resistant urinary tract infection were more likely to have an infection relapse within a week than patients with nonresistant infections, a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found.

New Castle, Pa.-based UPMC Jameson hospital has notified 211 patients about a potential health risk stemming from exposure to ultrasound probes that were improperly cleaned, according to a WPXI news report.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals now offers buprenorphine at adult medicine clinics in 18 community and hospital-based ambulatory care centers across the city, the health system annouced Nov. 1.

For the third year in a row, the U.S.'s birth rate for premature babies rose, according to an annual report issued by White Plains, N.Y.-based March of Dimes, a national nonprofit for maternal and infant health improvement.

About 60,000 people are affected by Parkinson's disease each year, and despite medications, few options exist to treat the neurological disease's onset. However, researchers found patients have about a 20 percent lower chance of developing Parkinson's if they have their…

President Donald Trump's administration rolled back an ACA measure to update accessible medical treatment standards for Americans with disabilities in late 2017, which has reinforced some patients' limited access to high-quality healthcare, according to Kaiser Health News.