A recent study of prostate biopsy outcomes in Swedish men found two main risk factors contribute to the likelihood of men developing an infection after the biopsy — a history of urinary tract infections and significant comorbidities.

Educating physicians and other providers on expediting sepsis diagnosis and administration of antibiotics can lead to lower patient mortality as well as lower hospital costs, according to a study in the Journal of Healthcare Quality.

The following are the 10 most-read hand hygiene-centric stories for August, starting with the most popular.

Staffing vendor EmCare has reached an agreement with a group of emergency department physicians at Wichita, Kan.-based Wesley Medical Center in which the physicians will become EmCare employees, according to a Wichita Business Journal report.

HHS announced $35.7 million in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act funding to 147 health centers to support the construction and renovation of patient-centered medical homes in health centers.

Patients with a history of preoperative opioid use can expect improvements after reverse shoulder arthroplasty procedures, according to a study published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.

Sandhills Regional Medical Center, a private, for-profit 64-bed acute care hospital in Hamlet, N.C., is in "immediate jeopardy" status with CMS, according to a Richmond County Daily Journal report.

Though the only two Americans with confirmed cases of Ebola have been discharged from the hospital healthy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance for safe handling of human remains of Ebola patients for U.S. hospitals and…

A reminder from a physician to get a flu shot can help reduce the racial disparity in who gets vaccinated for the flu, according to research published in the Journal of Internal Medicine.

In its months-long probe of scheduling at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix, the Office of the Inspector General was unable to prove that scheduling delays caused the deaths of nearly 40 veterans, according to a report from NPR.