Patient safety advocates are calling for greater transparency and investigation regarding unintended medical harm, according to a WPRI report.

Thirty-day readmission rates for hip and knee replacements at Indiana University Health Saxony Hospital are at 0.74 percent, more than seven times lower than the national average. Length of stay is also on the extreme low end. So how does…

The number of primary care physicians employed by hospitals increased from 10 percent in 2013 to 20 percent in 2014, according to a Jackson Healthcare survey of physicians.

Camden, S.C.-based KershawHealth has added a two-physician general surgery department after integrating the practices of two physicians, according to a Chronicle Independent report.

  Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control and Greenville (S.C.) Health System are investigating the cause of the infection that affected 15 surgical patients at the hospital and may…

Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have a mortality rate of more than 40 percent, and the number of infections worldwide has been on the rise in recent years.

The use of regional anesthesia compared with general anesthesia was not associated with lower 30-day mortality, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Merrillville, Ind.-based Methodist Hospital was placed on lockdown for about five hours after a patient was found stabbed to death early Friday morning, according to an NBC Chicago report.

Sage Products has introduced Incontinence Clean-up Cloths, a new skin care product for patients suffering from incontinence.

Vioguard, a developer of self-sanitizing keyboards for the medical industry, finalized a patent sale agreement with Microsoft that includes the sale of U.S. patents for sterilizing surfaces on input devices.