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The New Jersey Department of Health and West Windsor Township Health Department are looking into a situation in which a nurse reused syringes when administering flu shots, according to The Washington Post. 

Scientists in Brazil discovered how dengue virus binds to a human enzyme to replicate and spread rapidly in the body, according to The Health Site.

The National Institutes of Health gave James Munro, a Tufts University School of Medicine biophysicist, a New Innovator funding award, according to Boston Business Journal.

A new article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal examines the common practice of prescribing antibiotics after joint surgery.

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society honored the University of Missouri Health Care with the HIMSS Enterprise Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence, according to News-Medical.

Many U.S. adults are not comfortable with their healthcare data security, according to a University of Phoenix College of Health Professions School of Health Services Administration survey.

A new study, by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, found that overweight or obese patients were less likely to require blood transfusions when undergoing hip and knee replacement surgery.

The University HealthSystem Consortium honored Tufts Medical Center in Boston with the Bernard A. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award.

Global Virus Network issued a warning concerning a disconcerting rise in the number of measles cases detected in the first eight months of 2014, according to LegalNewsline.com.

Avindra Nath, MD, of National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, may be a step closer to finding a cure for ALS, according to NBC News. The researchers published their findings in Science Translational Medicine.