Provo-based Utah State Hospital opened The Forgotten Patients Memorial Oct. 10 to honor 485 former patients who were buried without a headstone or funeral between 1886 to 1960, according to News4Utah.

The World Health Organization is highlighting mental health adversities among young people in honor of World Mental Health Day, which is Oct. 10.

While some policymakers claim Medicaid expansion is partially to blame for the nation's opioid crisis, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found Medicaid expansion was not linked to increased opioid misuse, according to a Journal of General Internal…

More than half of HIV-infected individuals released from prison do not maintain a care routine due to adequate access to healthcare, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.

The surface of pathogenic bacteria like E. coli contains hair-like structures called pili, which help bacteria bind to a host cell and stimulate infection. Researchers identified a new stage of pilus creation, which could offer helpful knowledge for creating new…

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., urged the CDC to investigate the national uptick of acute flaccid myelitis infections among children in an Oct. 9 letter to CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Health System is now offering flu vaccines at nine clinic locations across the state, according to the Austin Daily Herald.

Several states across the U.S. are already seeing flu cases at the start of the 2018-19 flu season.

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh confirmed Oct. 9 that three children being treated at the facility are believed to have acute flaccid myelitis, a polio-like illness that affects the body's nervous system and may cause paralysis, according to CBS 2…

Physicians often misunderstand test results, particularly in grasping how false positives work, meaning they may make crucial medical decisions based on incorrect assumptions, a chief of hospital epidemiology writes in The Washington Post.