Abraham Joy, PhD, an assistant professor at Akron (Ohio) University, and his research team received $200,000 from Ohio's Third Frontier Commission to fund research into a material that can detect opioid residue, according to News 5 Cleveland.

New York's statewide mandatory initiative for sepsis treatment increased compliance with sepsis bundles, leading to a decrease in sepsis-related mortality, according to a study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Zimbabwe is launching a crowdfunding campaign to help fund efforts to contain the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, according to STAT's Morning Rounds e-newsletter. 

One-fifth of Americans experience chronic pain, which illustrates the national need for pain management, according Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the CDC.

A nurse at Philadelphia-based Penn Presbyterian Medical Center created an escape room training activity to educate fellow staff on sepsis, according to ABC 6.

A theory exists that hurricanes such as Florence can prompt an increase in births, The Charlotte Observer reported.

At Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, medical residents are a driving force behind systemwide quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, according to a blog post on the AMA Wire.

116 daily deaths, 42,249 yearly deaths, and $504 billion were the statistics that haunted Americans as a result of the opioid epidemic in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

New interns — physicians who finished four years of medical school — are especially prone to making medication errors, signaling a need for better training to improve patient safety in teaching hospitals, a fourth-year emergency medicine resident writes in a…

An investigation into a patient's death in 2017 at the Chillicothe (Ohio) Veterans Affairs Medical Center found failures in patient safety and training at the hospital, the Chillicothe Gazette reports.