A nurse at Lee's Summit, Mo.-based Saint Luke's East Hospital who posted photos of herself and another person in blackface is no longer employed, the hospital told The Kansas City Star.

Salisbury, N.C.-based Novant Health Rowan Medical Center celebrated a 70 percent decrease in hospital-acquired infections since 2016, and as of Oct. 27, the hospital had no infections for the month, according to the Salisbury Post.

More than 75,000 U.S. children sought treatment at emergency rooms due to gun-related injuries from 2006-2014, according to a study covered by the Los Angeles Times.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is recruiting hospitals for a project to improve care and recovery in gynecology, colorectal, hip fracture and joint replacement surgery services.

Health officials reported 17 new cases and 10 deaths in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making this the nation's third largest outbreak of the virus, according to an update from University of Minnesota's Center for…

Living donors face many obstacles when donating an organ, such as getting approved time off for surgery or securing insurance coverage. However, many states have protections in place to aid living donors, and now Congress should too, LaVarne A. Burton,…

Trained "sniffer dogs" can successfully detect a distinctive odor emitted by malaria parasites on human clothing, according to research presented Oct. 28 at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Chicago-based Rush University selected Sherine E. Gabriel, MD, to serve as president, effective in February 2019.

Amazon introduced a slate of initiatives targeted toward supporting patients with opioid use disorder Oct. 24, in honor of the opioid bill President Donald Trump recently signed into law.

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined how simulation-based training affected the duration and the quality of hand hygiene.