A woman was forced to drive herself to a California hospital for a scheduled cesarean section Aug. 15 after immigration agents detained her husband, claiming he had an arrest warrant for homicide in Mexico, CBS2 Los Angeles reports.

A Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare physician is adding maggots to her arsenal of medical practices to help patients manage wounds that don't seem to heal, according to WDRB.com.

Mesa, Ariz.-based Banner Desert Medical Center is seeing a baby boom in its intensive care unit, with 16 of the unit's nurses pregnant at the same time, CNN reports.

The World Health Organization revised its recommendations for treating patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis to help patients achieve better outcomes.

The differences in survival rates between rural and urban cancer patients are significantly reduced when patients are enrolled in a cancer clinical trial, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

CMS has placed the Indian Health Service hospital on the Rosebud (S.D.) Sioux Indian Reservation on "immediate jeopardy" status and will terminate the hospital's Medicare provider agreement Aug. 30 unless the deficiencies are corrected.

Physicians don't always disclose relevant payments from medical device vendors, even when it's relevant to their research, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

A New York City union president said the 650 police officers who guard NYC Health + Hospital's 11 locations should carry a firearm, according to the New York Post.

Physicians call it “Pajama Time.” But it has nothing to do with curling up with a good book before heading off to bed.

The National Institutes of Health has started the first in-human trial of an experimental live, weakened Zika virus vaccine.