Clinician's misunderstanding of end-of-life documents can have significant ramifications for patients, yet most U.S. health systems and state regulators don't track these mix-ups when they surface, according to a column written by Kaiser Health News and published in The Washington Post…

The Infectious Diseases Society of America designated 25 U.S. healthcare organizations as Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence.

Inducing labor at 39 weeks is just as safe as waiting for naturally occurring labor and may actually lower the risk of cesarean section, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A reported 74 shooting victims sought emergency care at various hospitals throughout Chicago between 3 p.m. Aug. 3 and 6 a.m. Aug. 6, making it one of the most violent weekends in the city since at least 2016, according to…

Police confirmed two people were found dead from an apparent murder-suicide at Valhalla, N.Y.-based Westchester Medical Center Aug. 8, CBS 2 New York reports.

Social media, edited selfies and pioneering apps that assist in altering a person's appearance creates a false reality of unrealistic beauty, leading many younger patients to seek out plastic surgery, three authors write in an op-ed published in JAMA.

A patient diagnosed as mentally incompetent went missing from Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center for over a day before he was found, leaving his family to wonder why the hospital waited several hours to notify them he was missing, Channel 2…

Denver-based Rose Medical Center ended its family medicine residency program after almost 50 years after the hospital's parent company and the Aurora-based University of Colorado School of Medicine, which runs the program, disagreed over how it should be operated, according…

A patient reportedly brought a suspicious package to the emergency room of Greenville, S.C.-based St. Francis Eastside Aug. 7, causing authorities to halt all traffic surrounding the hospital, according to the Greenville News.

Los Angeles-based University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias, PhD, resigned Aug. 7, less than one week after more than 600 professors issued a letter calling for his resignation before the academic school year begins later this month,…