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 Department of Veterans Affairs plans to stock the opioid overdose antidote naloxone in its automated external defibrillator cabinets at facilities nationwide starting in December, according to NPR. 

In the 2017-2018 flu season, just half of pregnant women said they got a flu vaccine before or during their pregnancy, a CDC report found.

Rebecca Savage, a trained OB-GYN nurse, created a prescription drug safety foundation after her two sons died from accidental overdoses in 2015, according to USA Today.

A suspended nurse at Madison, Wis.-based UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital has been charged with 19 counts related to abuse in the neonatal intensive care unit, WMTV reports.

In last year's flu season, a record-breaking estimated 80,000 people died and 900,000 people were hospitalized from flu-related complications, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, said at a Sept. 27 news conference presented by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

An experimental vaccine created by GlaxoSmithKline could stop tuberculosis development in half of patients who get it. It could be the first new shot against TB in 100 years, according to a study covered by Reuters.

Surgeons at Jacksonville, Fla.-based Wolfson Children's Hospital performed the first procedure to treat a ruptured aneurysm on a pediatric patient using the Pipeline Embolization Device, according to Juice, a health news source from Jacksonville-based Baptist Health.

CMS on Sept. 17 revealed a proposal to eliminate a measure that penalizes hospitals with increased instances of patient deaths after an organ transplant. 

CMS cited the University of Minnesota Medical Center at Fairview Riverside Hospital in Minneapolis for violating a patient's rights who went to the emergency department for mental health concerns — the second Fairview hospital to be cited this month for…