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The Rockefeller University’s Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing in New York City will award five U.S. nurses the 2016 Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Awards.

A Sao Paulo, Brazil-based research group predicted no more than 15 Zika infections will occur at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, much lower than the 1,400 cases of microcephaly already reported in Brazil, according to Yahoo! Sports.

Planetree selected Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute to participate in its patient-centered outcomes research project, as a part of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute's $249,000 Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award. PCORI granted the award to Planetree.

Throughout the United States, surgeons have used Stryker's SurgiCount Safety Sponges in an estimated 10 million surgeries in the past five years.

World Health Organization officials have found more than 1,000 infants have been linked to Zika and microcephaly, and could also suffer from a wide range of neurological abnormalities other than microcephaly, according to The New York Times.

This year's Senate spending bill allotted an additional $2 billion to the National Institute of Health, bringing the agency's total budget to nearly $34 billion, according to The Hill.

On June 3, Muhammad Ali, a renowned American professional boxer, died of septic shock "due to unspecificied natural causes," a family spokesperson told reporters, according to CBS News.

Many medical professionals are calling for a national policy on how to better track and treat medical errors, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

Ian Read, Pfizer CEO, said it is very unlikely the company will seek another offshore tax deal due to the Obama administration's efforts to block such deals, according to The Hill.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Vedanta Biosciences raised $50 million in new equity investments for its therapies to modulate the human microbiome.