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Some viruses defend against attackers with their own immune systems, a Aix-Marseille (France) University study has found, according to HNGN.

Sixty percent of Americans went online to discover health information in the last year, according to the Pew Research Center. Stamford, Conn.-based Purdue Pharma investigated five drug websites for the reliability of the information, according to Pain News Network.

A Boston-based study found pediatric patients' parents often detect medical errors their children's physicians missed, according to Las Vegas Review Journal.

The American Pain Society released new clinical practice guidelines to optimize post-surgical pain and published the guideline in The Journal of Pain, according to a News Medical report.

Survivors now face difficult health conditions following their fights with Ebola, based on a new study, according to Scientific American. Liberian epidemiologist Mosoka Fallah, PhD, of Monrovia, Liberia-based Kennedy Medical Center, leads the research on Ebola survivors, investigating physical and…

Physicians often disagree with what the standardized Prevention Quality Indicator deems as preventable admissions, as found in a recent study, according to Medscape.

Two new academic papers raise questions about physician burnout and patient safety risks associated with EHRs, according to MedCity News.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released more guidance on the severe sepsis/septic shock management bundle measure, NQF #0500, according to APIC.

Somers Point, N.J.-based Shore Medical Center sent letters to 213 patients who received intravenous morphine or hydromorphine medicines between June 1, 2013, and Sept. 17, 2014, according to nj.com.

Physicians discovered a stillborn infant with Zika virus had a severely underdeveloped brain, as found in a PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases report, according to Gizmodo.