Fifty-seven percent of Americans say they've received a surprise medical bill they thought would be covered by insurance, according to a recent survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.

Salmonella has sickened 17 people in four states, including one person who died, the CDC said Aug. 29.

The hospital patient shows telltale signs of opioid withdrawal – feverish, shaking uncontrollably, crabby and irritated, crying out in anguish.

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is a safe, effective imaging modality with a rapidly expanding array of lifesaving, timesaving and cost-saving applications in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM).

Two University of Houston researchers received a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to develop technology that will identify the most promising combinations of antibiotics to kill certain types of resistant bacteria.

Timiyah Landers, a 12-year-old girl in Detroit, is recovering from critical burns on nearly half her body after participating in a viral "fire challenge" circulating YouTube and other social media platforms, according to Detroit Free Press.

Bon Secours Richmond (Va.) Community Hospital was forced into lockdown for seven hours Aug. 29 due to a "viable threat" of a shooting, according to a WRIC news report.

The last heart failure transplant cardiologist on Portland, Ore.-based OHSU's heart transplant team revealed plans to leave the instituion, just days after OHSU said it plans to suspend the program, according to The Oregonian.

One patient has died and 11 others have been hospitalized with a serious genital infection linked to a certain class of diabetes drugs, the FDA said Aug. 29.

Between 5.7 million and 8.4 million people die each year in low- and middle-income countries from poor quality of care, a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found.