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A student attending Lexington-based University of Kentucky may have contracted a disease, which causes meningococcal disease, according to Lex18.com.

Researchers are making recent discoveries concerning the Zika virus, which is sweeping Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, according to the Huffington Post.

In a recent press release, Healthmark Industries announced the addition of the Stainless Steel Washing Sleeves to its ProSys Instrument Care line.

Here are seven things to know about healthcare-associated infections according to an infographic from HealthyMagination.

Patients with no schooling benefit least from blood thinning medications, according to survey results published in Europace.

The Cincinnati VA Medical Center is undergoing an internal investigation in light of various patient care issues and concerns about a top official's improper practices, according to Dayton Daily News.

Despite growing demand for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, a policy brief reports patient care teams often lack other healthcare professionals including  behavioral specialists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, physical therapists and occupational therapists, according to AJMC.com.

In the last 12 months ending in January 2016, health insurance costs increased 4.8 percent, according to the U.S.  Department of Labor.

In a Regina Corso Consulting survey, nearly 76 percent of respondents reported they agree all physicians should use digital technology for patients' records, according to News-Medical.

John Mafi, MD, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the lead author of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that examined the effect of email reminders on whether…