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In the healthcare setting, it's critical for nurses and staff members to appropriately prepare for handling and transporting contaminated medical instruments and waste. Without the proper precautions, healthcare professionals could expose themselves and others to hazardous waste with lasting implications.

Newly opened, multi-specialty, surgery center in Mt. Pleasant, MI, is seeking an Administrator/DON for 1 OR, 2 Procedure Room facility.

The New York Times obtained an Office of Management and Budget document showing the Trump administration plans to cut the Office of National Drug Control Policy spending by 95 percent.

Throughout Minnesota, health officials have confirmed 41 measles cases, according to Star Tribune.

Governor Rick Scott, R-Fla., issued an order declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency, according to Health News Florida.

Over-the-counter analgesics are the most commonly-used U.S. non-prescription medication, according to Charles Vega's, MD, article published in Medscape.

Hospitals with low nursing staffing levels may have higher patient mortality risk, according to a Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet thesis, Medical Xpress reports. Swedish researchers had nurses answer a series of questions about the care they did not provide due to…

Health workers failing to make hand hygiene compliance a priority may put patients' health at risk.

For the first time since 1999, the CDC has updated its evidence-based recommendations for surgical site infection prevention, with results published in JAMA.

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan researchers found changing elderly patient's psychiatric medication dosage could reduce their fall risk, Medical Xpress reports.