Standardized cleaning method decreases contamination better than practitioner-preferred methods. Stethoscopes are a symbol of healthcare. But a new study in the journal Infection Control & Hospital ...

Theresa Brown is a clinical nurse and author of The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives. For the talent portion of the Miss America contest this year, Kelley Johnson performed a ...

The View’s Joy Behar made a surprisingly ignorant comment about nurses this week during a discussion of the Miss America pageant. Miss Colorado (Kelley Johnson), dressed in scrubs and wearing a ...

Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope — the very symbol of the medical profession — is facing an uncertain prognosis. It is threatened by hand-held devices that are also pressed against ...