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Patricia Pabon, a certified registered central sterile technician at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y., was awarded the Anne Cofiell Decontaminator of the Year award at the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management conference in San Antonio,…

A study published in the journal Nature Microbiology reveals why the bacterium behind staph infections evades antibiotics, as reported by Phys.org.

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality named Andrew Bindman, MD, director, according to UCSF.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) rejected President Obama's $1.9 billion funding request for the Zika virus on the Senate floor on April 28, according to The Hill.

Healthcare startup MPIRICA Health is launching more than one million outpatient quality scores.

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researched sepsis treatments.

Archives of Internal Medicine published a 2012 study finding physicians were twice as likely to report dissatisfaction with work-life balance, which is a key contributor to physician burn-out, according to eVisit.

A report from Castlight Health shows opioid abuse rates are notably lower in states and jurisdictions where patients can legally access medical marijuana.

University of Buffalo (N.Y.) medical students provided healthcare to underserved populations in rural Haiti and Honduras, according to University of Buffalo.

Rachel Whittaker, BSN, RN, CPN, of the Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, and the Clinical Informatics Council of the University of New Mexico Hospitals in Albuquerque are recipients of the 2016 National Patient Safety Foundation DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses.