Health workers are facing a major obstacle in their efforts to eradicate Zika and kill mosquitoes carrying the virus: Insecticides are no longer working.

To help create a device that will prevent people from contracting HIV and AIDS, billionaire Bill Gates has invested $140 million in Intarcia Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company based in Boston, according to an International Business Times story.

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine found hospitals can save an average of 8 percent without impacting quality in Medicare’s bundled payment for joint replacement.

“New year, new me” is a saying of plenty of people utter when making New Year’s resolutions. Losing troublesome weight is a common goal. New research published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism says that the most promising way of fulfilling your resolution is to follow a plan that requires exercise in addition to dieting.

Although Zika hysteria in the U.S. was rampant over the summer and the disease entered the country, new research suggests a large-scale outbreak in the U.S. remains unlikely.

A new study, published in PAIN, has found that patients with substance abuse disorders and other psychiatric conditions are more likely to use opioid pain medications for longer terms.

Stroger Hospital and the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, both in Chicago, have been racking up malpractice suits, which are costing them, according to a recent story from Crain’s Chicago Business.

Gifts, pledges and grants to nonprofit hospitals in the United States went up by 0.2 percent in 2016, totaling $9.6 billion, according to a report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP).