Breastfed infants develop gut bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics and therefore boost the infants' over all immune system to antibiotic resistance, according to a study published by Nature Communications.

Clinician-mediated and organization-level interventions are effective in creating change in postsurgical opioid prescribing, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.

A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases examined risk factors for Clostridium difficile transmission using whole-genome sequencing.

Connecticut has reported its first flu death of the 2018-19 season, state Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Oct. 22, according to the Hartford Courant.

When assessing patients, simply eyeballing them may prove more effective than using a formal structured algorithm to prioritize those who need urgent medical care most, a study published in Emergency Medicine Journal found.

Rooms exposed to daylight have fewer germs, and compared to dark rooms, sunlit rooms have about half the amount of bacteria that can grow, a study published in Microbiome found.

Richard Rothman, MD, PhD, a surgeon who pioneered hip replacement surgery and founder of the Rothman Orthopedic Institute, died Oct. 21 at age 81, according to The Inquirer.

Influenza cost employers more than $21 billion in lost productivity during the 2017-18 flu season, according to an estimate from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Jeffrey Morgan, MD, the heart transplant program surgical director at Houston-based Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, will no longer serve in his role. Instead, two new cardiothoracic surgeons and a prominent transplant program executive will work together to lead the…

After a patient sued Layton, Utah-based Davis Hospital & Medical Center in June, claiming a nurse may have exposed her to hepatitis C, another patient is suing the hospital and the nurse, according to the Standard-Examiner.