Twenty-seven states fall below the national average for appropriate sepsis care, according to sepsis performance data added to CMS' Hospital Compare website in July.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children receive the injectable flu vaccine for the upcoming season, instead of the nasal spray vaccine FluMist, according to STAT.

Hospital rankings and ratings tools should let patients assess organizations based on the quality measures that fit their needs and preferences, according to an analysis by the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp.

While common knowledge suggests the human body's base temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, adults' average normal body temperature could be closer to 97.7 degrees Fahrenheit,, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles have found around 8,000 four-and five-drug combinations of antibiotics that effectively kill harmful bacteria, contrary to previously held notions. They published their findings in Systems Biology and Applications.

Many pediatric practices are discovering that millennial parents (those born from the early 1980s to the late 1990s) have different expectations for their children’s health care than previous generations.

While the U.S. remains one of the only high-income countries without universal health insurance coverage, the ACA managed to improve care for residents across the nation, with more than 20 million people gaining insurance coverage, Newsweek reports.

California regulators have cited the residential facility where a 75-year-old woman lived before she was found dead in the stairwell of Zuckerberg San Francisco Hospital's locked power plant building in May, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital practices infectious disease training exercises every few months to ensure staff members are prepared to treat patients with highly contagious diseases, according to The Baltimore Sun.

At least one infant died after contracting a viral eye infection while in the neonatal intensive care unit at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the fall of 2016, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month, The Inquirer reports.