BETR-Disinfection researchers conclude addition of UVC disinfection is significantly superior to manual disinfection alone.

Health officials are struggling to identify possible Ebola patients and track the virus' spread in the Congo, according to STAT.

Fatal drug overdoses have fallen nationwide over the last six months, according to a CDC report. However, health experts warn against early claims of the opioid and drug epidemic ending.

UPMC McKeesport (Pa.) Hospital closed four patient rooms after mold was discovered during routine maintenance, according to a CBS Local news report.

Many major cities in the U.S. staff fewer epidemiologists than recommended by state staffing ratios, according to a survey from the Big Cities Health Coalition and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

A nurse at Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health Medical Center was fired Oct. 22 after officials learned she posted an offensive Snapchat, reports The Ledger.

Nearly one in four seriously ill patients said they have experienced a serious medical error, including 14 percent who said the error or most recent error happened at a hospital and 7 percent who said it happened at a physician's…

Former nursing graduates of now-closed City Hospital in St. Louis reunited after five decades, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

As hundreds of patients facing psychiatric emergencies are admitted to emergency departments each year, hospitals can help prevent EDs from being overwhelmed by taking several key actions, starting with better collaboration, an emergency medicine director writes in a STAT op-ed.

Iowa Falls, Iowa-based Hansen Family Hospital will end its labor and delivery services on Nov. 23, after its primary physician leaves the hospital, according to The Courier.