Oakland, Calif.-based Highland Hospital is among a small number of U.S. emergency departments that give patients withdrawal medicine, an effort to change a healthcare system that often fails to give on-demand addiction treatment, The New York Times reports.

After a nurse at Tahlequah, Okla.-based W.W. Hastings Hospital improperly administered medication through a reused syringe, the hospital is improving infection control, nursing services and medication administration practices — an effort prompted by a CMS survey finding it was out…

After infection control teams in the Netherlands and Vancouver, Canada, reported success in using dogs to sniff out patients with Clostridium difficile, Toronto researchers want to know whether canines can detect the dangerous infection in hospitals, STAT reports.

Drug overdose deaths are currently the leading cause of injury death in the U.S.

A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases examined the morbidity and mortality burden of invasive aspergillosis.

The discharge of select intensive care unit patients directly to their home is not linked to increased healthcare utilization or mortality, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Evanston-based Wyoming State Hospital is under investigation for a patient suicide, which occurred June 18 after an employee allegedly failed to follow proper rounding procedures to check on the patient, according to the Uinta County Herald.

Indian Health Service clinics don't have enough physicians or nurses to provide quality and timely care to American Indian and Alaska Native people, and IHS data reveals an average provider vacancy rate of 25 percent, a report from the Government…

Researchers at Vancouver-based University of British Columbia discovered a new method to create Type O blood, using an enzyme found in the human stomach, according to research presented at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting Aug. 21 in Boston.

Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital, part of Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, will shift to a new anesthesiology provider Jan. 1, 2019, ending a 24-year relationship with its current provider, according to Buffalo Business First.