The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses annouces its 2018 AORN Go Clear Gold Award recipients.

As hospitals address physician burnout by appointing chief wellness officers for their employees and medical schools revise curriculums, healthcare is neglecting one clear solution — physicians seeing more healthy patients, a physician argues in The Washington Post.

After a team of engineers and physicians created a device that diffuses potent disinfectants into the air, the device effectively eliminated 100 percent of bacteria that often cause hospital-acquired infections, the research team reports in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

The Charlotte Hall (Md.) Veterans Home is currently containing a scabies outbreak among its residents and staff, according to the Maryland Independent.  

A study published in JAMA examined the frequency of opioid overdoses after discharge from surgery.

Children exposed to Zika while their mothers were pregnant during the initial Zika outbreak in 2016 are developing secondary neurodevelopmental problems, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

A Powell, Ohio-based Chipotle Mexican Grill is thought to be responsible for about 700 cases of unidentified foodborne illness, and now the food chain faces its second lawsuit over the potential outbreak, according to Dayton Daily News.

After discharge, the stress of hospitalization can leave patients unsettled and weakened, a state called "post-hospital syndrome" that researchers say can contribute to readmissions in elderly patients, The New York Times reports.

Twenty patients at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine were cured of hepatitis C after receiving kidney transplants from deceased donors who had the infection, a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found.

Police and officials at Sandy Springs, Ga.-based Northside Hospital said a man checked into the hospital as a visitor and injected a syringe containing a pink liquid into a patient's IV line July 27, causing the patient to go into…