A New Kind of Hospital Is Coming to Rural America To become a rural emergency hospital, qualifying facilities must close all their inpatient beds Mar 18, 2024
Hold Your Horses, Health Workers With COVID Still Must Isolate This aspect of CDC's guidance is not to be glossed over Mar 16, 2024
EPA Imposes New Limit on Medical Sterilization Chemical, Citing Cancer Risk Rule would lower emission standards for ethylene oxide by 90%, agency says Mar 15, 2024
MedPAC's Report Recommends Pay Changes for Healthcare Services Report highlights MA quality, overpayment issues, and urges action on four prior recommendations Mar 15, 2024
RaDonda Vaught Says Some System Practices Contributed to Fatal Mistake During patient safety webinar, she advised clinicians to "slow down" to avoid deadly mistakes Mar 14, 2024
Sickle Cell Pain Hospitalizations Rose After CDC's Opioid Recs Agency's 2016 guidance may have contributed to reduced access to opioids, and more pain Mar 11, 2024
Commonly Used Fingertip Pulse Oximeters Not Up to Snuff Some failed to meet regulatory standards, skin pigmentation remains an issue Mar 11, 2024
MedPAC Members Pan Rural Hospitals' 'Cost-Plus' Billing System for Medicare Patients Allowing the system to stay in place is "unconscionable," says one commissioner Mar 07, 2024
AAAAI Roundup: Perioperative Assessment of Antibiotic Allergy With a Mobile App Plus, other selected poster presentations from the allergy meeting Mar 04, 2024
Toxic Gas That Sterilizes Medical Devices Prompts Safety Rule Update The EPA is set to take action after public outcry Mar 03, 2024
'The Good Doctors' -- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Medicine Strengths, challenges, and stories of "real" Dr. Shaun Murphys Mar 02, 2024
Providers Push Back on Mission Health's CMS Correction Plan Response is "completely inadequate," physician says Feb 27, 2024
Wendy Williams' Dementia; 48% Back 16-Week Abortion Ban; Hospital Sues Quadriplegic Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Feb 23, 2024
Death by Gila Monster; Alabama Hospital Halts IVF Treatments; E-Bike Head Traumas Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Feb 22, 2024
Study Backs Recommended Antibiotic Approach for Aspiration Pneumonia Evidence of more side effects, lack of survival benefit with extended anaerobic coverage Feb 21, 2024
Largest COVID Vax Safety Study; Kratom Deaths Rising; Gov. Threatens Hospital Chain Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Feb 21, 2024
Hospital-at-Home Could Be a Double-Edged Sword Equity and infection prevention are cause for concern Feb 17, 2024
Cancer Patients Caught in the Crosshairs of Hospital Consolidation Policymakers must rein in anti-competitive tactics Feb 16, 2024
Home Induction Is Effective and Safe for Moms and Babies However, noninferiority criteria between methods was not met Feb 15, 2024
Bad Doctors Caught on Camera Dr. Mike reacts to mocking patients, dark humor, live streaming surgeries, and more Feb 15, 2024
Hospital Cyberattacks Likely to Increase, Putting Lives at Risk, Experts Warn Computer systems are a favorite target for malicious hackers Feb 15, 2024
Novel Antibiotic Combo Bests Meropenem for Complicated UTIs Cefepime-taniborbactam had sustained efficacy for up to a month after treatment Feb 14, 2024
Here Are This Year's Best Employers in Healthcare and Biotech Semaglutide maker Novo Nordisk, children's hospitals, Alzheimer's Association take top spots Feb 14, 2024
Suicide Risk Highest Right After Depression Hospitalization Discharge Incidence extremely high in the first 3 days Feb 14, 2024
Safety Events at Hospitals More Common in Black and Hispanic Kids "Many factors could be driving these disparities," researcher says Feb 14, 2024 video
Study: Let's Revisit Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Joint Replacement One center's experience puts recent policy in doubt Feb 13, 2024
San Francisco Nurses Sue City Over Missed Breaks Class action lawsuit claims nurses at public hospitals were denied meal, rest breaks Feb 13, 2024
15 Residents in Limbo as Surgical Residency Program Loses Accreditation Health system has filed an appeal, but residents eye an escape Feb 13, 2024
Midline Catheters Go Head-to-Head With PICCs for Bloodstream Infections For dwell times of 15 days or less, midline catheters noninferior, single-center study finds Feb 13, 2024
Study: Fewer Kids in the ED Means More Missed Diagnoses Study suggests low pediatric-volume EDs might benefit from supports to improve diagnosis Feb 12, 2024
Shaping the Future of Effective Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Testing and rating the performance of AI models used in healthcare will be key Feb 12, 2024 video
Flu Hangs on in the U.S., Fading in Some Areas and Intensifying in Others COVID seems to have peaked at around the same time Feb 11, 2024
Criminal Actor to Blame for Days-Long Cyberattack on Chicago Hospital, Officials Say Lurie Children's Hospital is working with the FBI Feb 10, 2024
FDA Panel Mulls Which Devices Are Critical in a Public Health Emergency "If we have a thermonuclear war, all I need is a scalpel," one panel member said Feb 06, 2024
Candida Auris: What to Know About the Fungal Infection Spreading Across the U.S. The multidrug-resistant organism colonizes skin, lingers on surfaces Feb 06, 2024
IG Live February 8: Advancing Equitable Health Outcomes Through Representation Join an expert discussion on the impact of healthcare workforce diversity Feb 06, 2024
Over 80% of Nurses Face Workplace Violence, Survey Finds "After the gun incident we asked for metal detectors to enter the hospital," says one nurse Feb 05, 2024
FDA Advisory Panel Generally Pleased With Pulse Oximetry Clinical Trial Proposal But some questions arose regarding number of participants, permissible variance in measurements Feb 03, 2024
The Green New Deal for Health Should Not Be Kept a Secret The legislative package has great potential for climate, health, and economic benefits Feb 03, 2024
