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TV-6 investigators found a letter in which Genesis Health System, which has hospitals in Iowa and Illinois, told staff members four wrong-site surgeries occurred at the health system's hospitals within 40 days, according to KWQC TV-6.

The growing prevalence of infectious disease will drive the global surface disinfectant market's growth, according to MedGadget.

Wisconsin health officials are launching an investigation into a bacterial bloodstream infection, Elizabethkingia, outbreak that may be linked to 18 deaths, according to Fox News.

A Veteran Affairs Boston Healthcare System clinic is reconciling the tension between quick outpatient visits and time-intensive training of future healthcare providers.

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.