Only about one-third of physicians (36 percent) would seriously consider a career change to a government-employed practice setting, such as the VA, military or corrections, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.

Reaching the goal of zero preventable deaths in healthcare settings is "within our grasp," Vice President Joe Biden said during the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in Irvine, Calif., over the weekend.

Following criticism for its delayed response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization has created a contingency fund and emergency workforce to respond to crises more quickly, according to a Reuters report.

A survey of heart failure patients revealed several barriers they experience in self-care that lead to their trip to the ER. The survey was designed by researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and published in the Annals of Emergency…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine to prevent serogroup B meningococcal disease, the second vaccine approved by the FDA in the last three months to prevent the disease.

The flu, reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections and the measles outbreak captured the attention of clinical quality and infection control readers last week.

The National Patient Safety Foundation's Lucian Leape Institute has issued numerous recommendations to improve transparency after holding two roundtable discussions on the topic as it relates to patient safety.

Mercy Health-Cincinnati announced Thursday the acquisition of the local Cardiac, Vascular & Thoracic Surgeons, one of the area's largest physician groups.

More than 70 cases of measles have been reported in connection with the Disneyland outbreak, dating back to mid-December, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Three hundred vials of GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine have been sent to Liberia, one of three African countries hit hardest by the epidemic, according to a Reuters report.