Fayetteville, Ark.-based Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks reviewed 7,482 cases for misdiagnosis after an investigation found an impaired pathologist had treated patients, KNWA reports.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Aug. 17 to improve care for patients who have been sexually assaulted, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Healthcare professionals face a variety of challenges when it comes to compliance: constantly changing laws, mounting administrative responsibilities, multiple siloed systems, staff turnover and more.

The type of cancer that killed music icon Aretha Franklin is one of the most deadly forms of the disease, reports USA Today.

With the ever-growing need for organ transplant innovations, new technologies like ex vivo perfusions allow physicians to better gauge the viability of damaged lungs for transplants, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Ibalizumab, a new HIV drug, reduces viral replication and increases immune cells in patients with drug-resistant forms of the infection, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Medicine has the nation's longest ongoing single-center kidney transplant chain, performing more than 101 transplants in five years, according to Alabama NewsCenter.

There are 333,833 female physicians in the U.S., according to March 2018 data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

A study published in JAMA Network Open examines trends in 30-day readmission rates among patients with stroke.

Despite conflicting information about the relationship between opioid use and national workforce levels, the opioid epidemic does not directly affect U.S. employment, according to research published in The Harvard Business Review.