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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.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society published a study finding 96 percent of American Thoracic Society international members believe climate change is occurring, and 81 percent of that figure also believes climate change has a direct impact on patient health,…

Legacy Community Health Services, located in Houston, is doing its part to combat Zika by screening pregnant women and testing individuals at risk, according to npr.

Twelve health organizations have agreed to work with the CDC and the Pew Charitable Trusts to limit outpatient antibiotic prescribing, according to CIDRAP.

JAMA Surgery published a study finding more costly care for postoperative complications is linked with worse patient outcomes, according to Medscape.