A patient at Orange Park (Fla.) Medical Center said her newborn was mistakenly given to a different mother for breastfeeding hours after she gave birth, WJXT reports.

Despite value-based incentives for physicians and hospitals, New Jersey has fewer vaccinations, more cesarean section deliveries and a harder time controlling patients' high blood pressure, according to a report cited by the Asbury Park Press.

Given changes to healthcare, many physicians are unwilling to recommend the medical profession to their children and other family members, according to a report from The Doctors Co., a physician-owned medical malpractice insurer.

About 92 percent of hospital workers reported receiving a flu vaccine during the 2017-18 flu season, compared to 75 percent of ambulatory care workers and 67 percent of long-term care workers, according to a survey released Sept. 28 by the…

The United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24 hosted a meeting focused on wiping out tuberculosis by 2030, according to NPR. 

Surgeons at Louisville, Ky.-based Jewish Hospital Trager Transplant Center and the University of Louisville completed their 300th lung transplant Sept. 18, according to The Lane Report.

The World Health Organization raised its alert level Sept. 27, saying the risk of Ebola spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo to other countries is now "very high" due to ongoing violence from militia groups, as well as the…

Several patients at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Cancer Comprehensive Cancer Center developed an infection after an employee swapped a narcotic drug from syringes with water, and the patients were injected with the syringes, according to The Buffalo News.

Syracuse, N.Y.-based SUNY Upstate Medical University President Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, revealed plans to step down from her position at the end of the fall semester this year, according to Localsyr.com.

After a suspended nurse at Madison, Wis.-based UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital was charged with abusing patients in the neonatal intensive care unit, the hospital has taken several steps to improve patient safety, WMTV reports.