Kids who clean their hands using hand sanitizer instead of traditional soap and water contract fewer respiratory infections, miss fewer school days and receive less antibiotics, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Researchers in the U.K. created a 'risk profile' to find heart patients who face the highest risk of developing sepsis, often years before they become ill, a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found.

Hospitals that participate in "Get With The Guidelines–Stroke," a quality improvement program for stroke care developed by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, are linked to providing better care, a study published in JAMA Neurology found.

The CDC said a rare but potentially severe condition that causes muscle weakness and paralysis in the arms and legs, typically among children, has increased in recent years, according to KHOU 11.

Medical residents told the Daily Bruin they only received a fraction of the $5,000 housing stipend that administrators at the Los Angeles-based David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA assured them they would receive.

Managing physician administrative services is a complex process with many moving parts.

Up to 168 million doses of the flu vaccine will be available during the 2018-19 flu season, according to The Washington Post.

The 1918 flu pandemic offers several lessons on infection control and outbreak response efforts for health officials today, according to a study published Oct. 8 in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Therapy dogs may serve as a mechanical vector for hospital-associated infections, according to research from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine presented at ID Week 2018 in San Francisco.

To protect more people from cancer caused by the human papillomavirus, the FDA expanded the use of the HPV vaccine Gardasil 9 to adults up to age 45, according to The Washington Post.