hospitals

More than half of hospitalized patients receive antibiotics, but these prescriptions may often be inappropriate and potentially put patients at risk for serious complications.

Stethoscopes tend to have more bacteria than the palms of physicians' hands.

This new antimicrobial coating could change the landscape for surface-to-skin microbe transmission.

Increasing resuscitation times may improve patients' survival.

Babies born very early or that weigh very little have an increased odds of dying if they aren't born in the right hospital.

Two-thirds of hospital stays for headache are because of migraines, according to the data.

Hospitals need to take steps to adequately prepare for an outbreak of measles.

Four out of 10 hospitals advertise robotic surgeries on their websites.