As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, pushes toward the East Coast, hospitals and pharmacies across the Carolinas are prepping for what could be catastrophic damage.

Hal, a medical training robot that's just entering the commercial market, was "built to suffer," according to Wired.

For patients coming to the hospital with pneumonia, intensive care unit stays increased their time spent in the hospital by 50 percent, bringing their length of stay to 7.2 days, a report covered in an American Journal of Managed Care blog post…

About 49 to 65 suicides in hospital inpatient units happen annually in the U.S., with most of them occurring among psychiatric inpatients, a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety found.

A Catholic priest with ties to Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center saw his "faculties to minister removed" in the Archdiocese of Boston after allegations he sexually abused a child in 2007, The Boston Globe reports.

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found that Clostridium difficile infection was most frequently diagnosed in the emergency department.

Portland, Ore.-based OHSU announced Sept. 10 it will commission an independent peer review of its heart transplant program, which has been indefinitely suspended since last month.

As Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm, nears the southeastern coastline of the U.S., hospitals and health systems across the Carolinas and Virginia, among other areas, are evacuating patients and providing alternate resources for people seeking medical care.

Many adolescents and young adults with opioid use disorder aren't receiving medication-assisted treatment, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Public health agencies' quick identification and response to this summer's numerous foodborne illness outbreaks highlights the technological advances over the last ten years that help protect consumers, according to NPR.