Several influential physician groups and healthcare organizations are rallying together to oppose any future efforts by state legislators to craft a universal healthcare system for California, according to The Sacramento Bee.

A nurse at Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital was fired after she posted a patient's condition on an anti-vaccination Facebook page, hospital officials confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Active shooter training and simulations show promise in properly equipping emergency room nurses and other hospital staff members, survey results published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing revealed.

One week after rapper Drake visited Sofia Sanchez at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, the 11-year-old patient got a second surprise: a new heart, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The Joint Commission named four healthcare organizations its 2018 Pioneers in Quality Expert Contributors.

Researchers discovered retail chicken and turkey products have a possible link to urinary tract infections in people, according to a study published Aug. 28 in mBio.

The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen urged federal health officials to stop a nationwide sepsis study in an Aug. 28 letter to the National Institutes of Health, arguing the research could put patients' health at risk and produce murky results.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital is investigating one of its nurses after she posted a patient's condition on an anti-vaccination Facebook page, hospital officials confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health confirmed a measles case diagnosed at Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Hospital & Medical Center Aug. 20.

Some states are successfully lowering opioid overdose death rates, despite a national increase, through thoughtful approaches to help individuals with opioid use disorder, according to an editorial written by The New York Times' editorial board.