A discharged patient from Pompano Beach, Fla.-based Broward Health North stole an ambulance because he "needed a car" to get home, according to an NBC Miami news report.

Comprehensive addiction training is rare in American medical education, which denies physicians the necessary diagnostic and communication skills required to treat patients with substance use disorder, according to The New York Times.

The Indian Health Service hospital on the Rosebud (S.D.) Sioux Indian Reservation is no longer on "immediate jeopardy" status after a CMS investigation found safety deficiencies, but still has several issues to fix if it wants to continue receiving Medicare…

An infant's death from a viral eye infection while in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia points to the need for the CDC to stop keeping the public in the dark about hospital infections, Betsy…

A study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection found bacterial contamination was lower in washrooms where paper towels were used for hand drying than in washrooms where jet air dryers were used.

While the New York City-based NYU School of Medicine announced plans to eliminate tuition for all current and incoming medical school students, leadership at Boston-based Harvard Medical School said the institution has no plans to follow suit, The Harvard Crimson…

Hospitals and health systems across the nation are setting stronger hygiene standards to help curb healthcare-associated infections, focusing on the hospital fixtures most vulnerable to contamination, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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A study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection examined adherence to the appropriate use of personal protective equipment by different types of healthcare workers.

Drug exchange programs, which would function along the same lines as a needle exchange program, could help public health officials prevent dangerous overdoses caused by tainted synthetic drugs, according to an op-ed written by Ian Ayers, PhD, professor at New…