Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health's ongoing partnership negotiations with Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, also in Dayton, have reportedly heated up in recent weeks, according to the Dayton Daily News.

The MacArthur Foundation announced the names of the 25 individuals selected to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, commonly referred to as the MacArthur "genius" grant, Oct. 4.

A pilot program run by Bremerton, Wash.-based Harrison Medical Center offers homeless patients a place to stay while still in recovery after a hospitalization, according to The Seattle Times.

About 3,000 health workers vaccinated more than 306,000 people against cholera in Yemen as part of a six-day vaccination campaign from the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund.

Sink traps may pose as hidden reservoirs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a study published Oct. 4 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Overall mortality rates in septic shock improved in the 10 years after the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines were introduced in 2004, a study published in CHEST found.

Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, PhD, a research professor at New York University's Department of Medicine, witnessed many of her colleagues lose microbiota samples — some of which took years to collect — when Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in October…

California children in some counties visited emergency rooms for asthma at much higher rates than the statewide annual rate in 2016, according to a California Healthline report.

Two Red Cross workers were seriously wounded Oct. 2 after they were attacked by community members while performing safe burials of deceased Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern city of Butembo, according to The Guardian.

The duration of a flu season and strain of flu virus responsible for infections vary based on a city's size and structure, according to a study published by Science.