Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health launched a large-scale rapid result testing system for influenza A, B, strep throat and respiratory syncytial virus.

Reader's Digest compiled a list of hospital objects that can hold large amounts of bacteria and other microbes, including elevator buttons, faucets and patient privacy curtains.

A study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety examined adverse events during moderate procedural sedation and compared patient and provider characteristics.

Influenza vaccination in a previous flu season did not dampen the efficacy of subsequent vaccination among children, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care officially opened the state's second trauma recovery center during a ceremony at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., on Oct. 29.

Patient safety expert Paul Alper recently launched Next Level Strategies, a consulting practice for organizations developing innovative healthcare technologies, products or services.

Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo are dying "at an unprecedented rate" amid the nation's ongoing Ebola outbreak, the Congo's health ministry said Oct. 28, according to Reuters.

Under a new program at Naples (Fla.) Community Hospital, some patients will lose the ability to select their own physicians for treatment, reports Wink News.

Jerry Rabinowitz, MD, was among the at least 11 people killed after a man opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pa., early Oct. 27, according to NBC News.

Nine pediatric patients at Wanaque (N.J.) Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation are dead amid an ongoing adenovirus outbreak, according to CNN.