After a series of overnight shootings that left two people dead and several others injured, Chicago-based John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital limited the number of trauma victims' families and friends entering the emergency room, NBC Chicago reports.

The CDC confirmed rat lungworm infection, which can cause meningitis in humans, in 12 people between 2011 and 2017 — raising questions about how common  the parasitic infection is.

A nurse at Philadelphia-based Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was stabbed in the leg while trying to protect her patient, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. 

Ibuprofen can be safely administered to children younger than 6 months old, according to a study published in Plos One.

Opioid-related deaths and incarcerations are affecting children across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at soaring rates, according to the 2017 Child Well-Being Survey published August 3.

After receiving concerns about how noise negatively affected patient sleep and staff stress levels, nurses from Manhasset, N.Y,-based North Shore University Hospital created an initiative to reduce noise levels in the hospital's neurosurgical intensive care unit — and small changes…

Denver Health is examining its response time for alerting the public about deadly infectious disease cases after a patient was admitted to the facility July 29 with a potential Ebola diagnosis, the Denver Post reports.

CMS will publicly disclose hospital errors, injuries and infections it proposed removing from one of its public reporting programs, the agency said in a new rule published August 2.

An estimated 160 individuals were taken to the hospital during the four-day Lollapalooza music festival, which began Aug. 2 in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Patients are often left with no platform to rate their healthcare service, besides large anonymous websites and social media, which highlights the need for a patient platform with reliable information for patients and healthcare professionals, according to an August 2…