A 79-year-old man fatally shot himself at Muscle Shoals, Ala.-based Shoals Hospital Sept. 9, according to WHTN News 19.

Heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular issues contributed to 2.2 million hospitalizations in 2016, according to the CDC’s most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Sept. 7.

Mesa View Regional Hospital, the only one in Mesquite, Nev., will stop providing labor and delivery services Oct. 1, according to the Desert Valley Times.

Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospital, part of Chambersburg-based Summit Health, transferred some patients and closed several patient rooms Sept. 7 due to weather-related moisture issues, according to a news release on the organization's website.

Following at least a dozen sexual harassment claims by media executives and former colleagues, Vanity Fair learned Les Moonves was also the subject of an article published by a Los Angeles-based Keck School of Medicine at USC professor who claimed…

Newly released federal documents obtained by ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle connect famed heart transplant surgeon O.H. "Bud" Frazier, MD, of Houston-based Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, to a rash of patient deaths at the hospital in 2015.

The US healthcare system is moving from volume-based care to one focused on value, forcing providers to shift their focus to efficiency and quality instead of patient quantity. As a result, health organizations are developing new systems to address issues…

The CDC on Sept. 7 recommended all individuals six months and older receive a seasonal flu vaccine, ideally by the end of October.

After a shooting erupted at the Fifth Third Center in Cincinnati Sept. 6, University of Cincinnati Medical Center emergency providers sprang into action within 10 to 15 minutes of getting a call from first responders, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.

The CDC quarantined a plane in New York City Sept. 6 after numerous passengers reported feeling ill, triggering what Martin Cetron, MD, director of the CDC's global migration and quarantine division, called the country's "hidden safety net," against infectious diseases,…