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Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based Lowcounty Gastroenterology Associates earned accreditation from the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals increased the price of its Calcium EDTA, a drug to treat lead poisoning, by more than 2,700 percent in one year, according to STAT.

Back in January, the CDC recommended pregnant women avoid traveling to Zika virus-prevalent areas. Just six months later, more than 60 countries or territories could claim new local transmission of the virus, according to The JAMA Network.

Healthcare providers are increasingly participating in a practice known as de-prescribing, or cutting down on the number of prescriptions a patient takes to reduce excessive use, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, officially known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, did not accept Pfizer's offer to donate 1 million pneumonia vaccine doses, according to Business Insider.

Roxanne Hupp, RN, an occupational health coordinator at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colo., implemented various strategies to reduce the hospital's number of patient handling injuries, according to Health Leaders Media.

The gold standard for measuring hand hygiene compliance, direct observation, is under fire, ContagionLive reports.

The majority of registered nurses (81 percent) and hospital administration staff (78 percent) recognize the shift of healthcare to a patient-centric model.

A group of healthcare organizations wrote a letter to Congressmen requesting they rectify legislation that stops HHS from working with the private sector on bettering patient identification tools, according to healthcare informatics.

Sepsis is a very serious and often fatal infection that infects a great number of people around the globe each year, according to Life Gazette.