A nurse in Italy has been arrested for allegedly killing 38 patients because she found them and their family members annoying.

Despite major advances in technology and innovation, infection spreads at modern-day hospitals like dysentery spread on (your last game of) Oregon Trail. Studies have shown that without encouragement, hospital employees only wash their hands about 30 percent of the time they're interacting with patients. Paging Dr.…

You might get annoyed about all the pictures of friends babies populating your Facebook feed, but it could be WAY worse.

We're all guilty of sometimes overutilizing social media. We use it to complain about friends, family, coworkers, jobs, and the many questionable characters on public transportation. We solicit advice, whine about Anne Hathaway, and share our dreams and desires. Facebook feeds can sometimes read like a damn Taylor…

There are more male nurses than ever before, and — naturally — they're making more money than their female peers, according to a new nationwide study.

Facebook privacy settings strike again.

Last night, when nature’s swirling toilet descended on the Northeast, millions of people lost power (including huge swaths of NYC, a fact which devastated future Republican Vice Presidential nominee Ryan Lochte, when he herd [sic] about it).

Chances are you have more than a few memories of being sent to the school nurse as a kid. Maybe you were faking a stomach ache because you wanted to go home. Maybe you'd gotten hit in the face with a basketball at recess. Maybe you'd thrown up in your classroom and were on the verge of dying from embarrassment.…

A program called SANE teaches Illinois nurses how to perform rape kits, and how to testify if they're called as a witness in a rape case. But very few of the state's nurses have gone through the program, because it takes so much time and hospital funds. And this lack of trained professionals is yet another hurdle…

If you're a doctor or a nurse, the next time you're looking at a troubling sore or coated in someone else's bodily fluids, you should remember the Swedish people still find you sexy. In an online poll, doctors and nurses were tied for most alluring profession, which may have something to do with Grey's Anatomy airing…

In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, women play football in lingerie, celebrities exercise during interviews, and we take a look at some of the companies that advertise during Jersey Shore.

Despite ending Season 1 with its protagonist flat on her back, hopped up on morphine, Nurse Jackie reopens with equilibrium pretty much restored. Chaos looms after one of her biggest lies was partially exposed, but Jackie is fiercely in control.

Betty Lichtenstein, 56, spent $2,000 to stage a dinner honoring herself as the Connecticut Nursing Association's "Nurse of the Year." That Association doesn't exist, and Betty's facing criminal impersonation charges. As for her patients… Probably traumatized. [AP]

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