Healthmark Industries has launched a new website of PPE items that are to help add a little fun to a serious dress code for SPD Professionals, according to a press release.

The U.S. continues to see elevated levels of the flu, and 11 new pediatric flu deaths were reported during the week ending Jan. 17, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Checklists are often used in healthcare settings, like operating rooms, to try to prevent adverse patient events like surgical site infections or wrong-site surgery. But checklist-based quality improvement initiatives may not be effective at achieving that goal, according to a…

More than a third of women on Medicaid of reproductive age, and more than a quarter of such women with private insurance, filled a prescription for an opioid pain medication each year from 2008 through 2012, which could put babies…

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is at a "turning point," a World Health Organization director told BBC News, as the number of new cases reported in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone has been on the decline.

Allegheny Health Network added 15 physicians to the ranks at Jefferson Hospital in Pittsburgh to accommodate twice-as-many annual births, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.

The use of health IT systems was associated with fewer adverse patient safety events in hospitals, according to a cross-sectional study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

Although the end of the Ebola outbreak may be in sight for some countries like Liberia, the United Nations has announced it needs another $1 billion in donations to continue fighting the deadly virus, according to a Bloomberg report.

The American Hospital Association offers a discharge planning toolkit to help hospitals improve patient transitions to post-acute care and reduce readmissions.

Starting the summer 2015, Pittsburgh-based UPMC will launch a kidney transplant program at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa., according to a TribLive report.