A medication-related cause was found in one of every 12 emergency department visits by pediatric patients, and two-thirds of them were avoidable, according to a study in Pediatrics.

After a record high flu level in December 2014, as measured by Gallup, reports of Americans having the flu declined in January, as the average of Americans who reported they "were sick with the flu yesterday" declined from 4 percent…

Utica, N.Y.-based Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare was able to reduce rates of Clostridium difficile infections by 39 percent after implementing a bundle of evidence-based interventions and using the Surfacide Helios Triple Emitter UV-C disinfection system.

Cleveland Clinic is now offering a new one-year residency program for nurses to transition from school into full-time clinical care, according to The News-Herald.

For the first time ever, Medicare will now cover lung cancer screenings for certain patients, CMS announced Thursday.

The chief science officer of Autism Speaks urged parents Thursday to fully vaccinate their children.

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As measles continues to spread throughout the U.S. in a way the nation hasn't really seen since 2000 (in January alone there were 102 confirmed measles cases), the debate about vaccines in general and the right to abstain from vaccination…

Infection rates for hospitals in Colorado were lower than national averages for many types of surgeries and procedures, according to the state's eighth annual healthcare-associated infections disclosure report.

General internal medicine and family medicine physicians in outpatient settings significantly overprescribe antibiotics to patients with respiratory tract infections, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.