In a Washington Post perspective, ICU nurse Andrea Useem shares her struggle to write an advance directive—despite her intimate understanding of how important such documents are for families who must make end-of-life decisions for a loved one.
Health officials on Monday announced that two experimental treatments appear to have improved the survival rates of patients infected with the Ebola virus, and the treatments now will be offered to all patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo who have contracted the virus.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force on Tuesday issued a draft recommendation that providers screen all adult patients for illicit drug use, marking the first time the task force has proposed such a recommendation.
The bill would require the state health department to review vaccine exemptions if a school's vaccination rate drops below 95%, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Iowa, and Louisiana.