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New research presented this week at the American Thoracic Society’s annual meeting suggests that the ongoing opioid crisis is making waves across the country’s intensive care units (ICU) every bit as much as it is inside people’s homes.

The authors analyzed hospital admissions from 2011 to 2015 for adults over the age of 18 in...

National Transportation Safety Board members clashed Tuesday over what caused last year’s fatal Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia, before the split body pinned blame on the speeding engineer.

The board voted, 3-1, in finding that Train 188 crashed because the operator failed to notice his speed had reached 106 mph, hitting a 50 mph curve just...

A National Transportation Safety Board report about an Amtrak train accident last year in Philadelphia that killed eight people highlights the need for railroads to move faster to install a life-saving technology that the safety board first recommended decades ago.

Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train No. 188 derailed on May 12, 2015 because it...

Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp on Monday filed reports with U.S. auto safety regulators declaring nearly 14 million air bag inflators defective.

Earlier this month, Takata said it would expand recalls for defective air bag inflators by 35 million to 40 million in several tranches through 2019, adding to the 28.8 million recalled before...

Subaru ordered its dealers to stop selling two key models Thursday because of a defect that could result in the loss of steering.

The Japanese automaker says it is recalling 48,500 new and near new cars because drivers potentially could lose control if they have the defect. Of those, about 22,000 are in customer's...

Nearly half the patients treated in seven weeks with a suspect scope at University of Colorado Hospital developed the same dangerous infection, state health officials reported Tuesday.

Three of those patients later died.

The one-page Colorado Department of Health and Environment report shows the department learned of the problem on Feb. 1, when...

The National Institutes of Health is overhauling the leadership of its flagship hospital after an independent review concluded that patient safety had become “subservient to research demands” on the agency’s sprawling Bethesda campus.

The shake-up at the NIH Clinical Center, which was announced to staff Tuesday, represents the most significant restructuring at the nation’s premier...

Nine University of Colorado Hospital patients developed infections and three of them later died after undergoing surgeries with a medical device suspected of causing fatal infections nationally.

The instrument, an Olympus Medical System Corp. duodenoscope, is inserted down the throats of patients to perform difficult and sometimes life-saving surgeries. But it has proved difficult to...

Takata Corp.’s air bag recalls may increase to 118.5 million worldwide after last week’s order by U.S. regulators compounded the biggest safety crisis in the history of the auto industry, according to estimates by Jefferies Group LLC.

Japan’s transport ministry and carmakers in other markets will probably follow the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in...

My fellow student physician was working a typical 12-hour shift when a panicked father ran into the pediatric clinic holding his son, who was limp and almost gray.

His pulse was frighteningly slow and he wasn’t breathing.

The father was Middle Eastern and couldn’t tell my fellow doctor-in-training what was wrong. There was no translator. The...