U.S. adults consume about 3,400 mg of sodium each day, well above the 2,300 mg recommended by the Institute of Medicine.

Hospitals will follow an industrial approach to improve hand hygiene as well as addressing other problems.

Doctors say the state Supreme Court decision allowing Freedom of Information requests could chill peer review proceedings.

Doctors say the cases threaten to destabilize liability climates and highlight the need for tort reform to be part of federal health system reform.

Psychological testing shows white physicians have friendlier attitudes toward anonymous white people than toward black people. But is this linked to unequal treatment?