Skipping Hand Hygiene Before Donning Gloves May Be Just as Safe, Trial Suggests Adherence to infection prevention strategy was better in hospital units asked to directly glove Oct 27, 2023
Probiotics for Preterm Infants Could Pose Serious Danger, FDA Warns Abbott, Infinant Health sent warning letters about their products Oct 26, 2023
Black Kids Twice as Likely to Die of Sepsis, Single-Center Study Finds "Outcomes were different" even with similar care, says researcher Oct 26, 2023
Inhaled Antibiotic Cuts Risk of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Also led to lower rate of ventilator-related complications versus placebo Oct 26, 2023
Vitamin C Flops for Severe COVID-19 Trial data suggest chance of harm significantly greater than small possibility of efficacy Oct 25, 2023
AI Can Be a Boon to Clinicians -- If Used Correctly, Says AMA President "We can provide things to make it easier for people to practice medicine," says Jesse Ehrenfeld Oct 25, 2023
Endoscopy Still an Option for Some 90-Year-Olds With GI Bleeds But conservative management used in most cases Oct 25, 2023
Cruise Line Found Negligent About COVID; Dialysis Machine Recall; MRI Injures Nurse Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 25, 2023
Burnout, Poor Mental Health on the Rise for Healthcare Workers, CDC Says "To label our current and long-standing challenge a 'crisis' is an understatement" Oct 24, 2023
Bacterial Infection Outbreak After Double Cataract Surgery Tied to Sterility Breach Danish case series details bilateral simultaneous postoperative endophthalmitis in three patients Oct 24, 2023
NPs No More Likely Than Physicians to Prescribe Inappropriately to Older Adults Mean rates of inappropriate prescribing by NPs, primary care doctors were "virtually identical" Oct 23, 2023
Carbohydrates and Long-Term Weight Change; Value of Cardiac Transfers Also in TTHealthWatch: reducing infections in joint replacement Oct 21, 2023 podcast
Breaking Point: Why We Become Activists Three healthcare providers describe what pushed them to speak out Oct 20, 2023 podcast
Nurse Sees Other Side of Unsafe Staffing "The nurse in me fully understood ... the mom in me was terrified" Oct 20, 2023 podcast
From New Pandemic Resident to Union Advocate "There weren't enough people who were healthy and available to come in to work" Oct 20, 2023 podcast
Shady Medicare Advantage Plan Tactics Blasted at Senate Hearing "It's a rip-off and it's got to stop," one Senator said Oct 19, 2023
U.S. Doc Volunteers in Jerusalem: 'I Felt Like I Had to Do Something' Martin Jacobson, MD, on his decision to be a volunteer physician during the Israel-Hamas war Oct 19, 2023 video
Beefed-Up Antibiotic Prophylaxis No Help for Post-Arthroplasty Infections And adding vancomycin to cefazolin may have increased surgical-site infections after knee surgery Oct 18, 2023
Death After IV Vitamins; 4-Day Work Week Healthier; Blast at Gaza Hospital Kills 500 Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 18, 2023
Plastic Glove, Scissors Solve Problem in Single-Lung Ventilation DIY approach to non-dependent lung collapse succeeds in trial Oct 17, 2023
Small Piece of Plastic Cuts Throat Damage From Trach Tubes Why didn't someone think of this sooner? Oct 17, 2023
Are Female Anesthesiologists Better Than Men? Some differences seen in two-center study; reasons, implications uncertain Oct 17, 2023
Possible Cause of Long COVID 'Brain Fog'; Nursing Shortage Real? Drinking Salt Water Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 17, 2023
Abortion Info Buried on Many Hospitals' Websites, Study Shows Nearly 80% of U.S. hospital systems omit abortion information entirely Oct 16, 2023
Antibiotic Combo for Acute Infection Cleared of Kidney Risk Use of cefepime meanwhile resulted in more neurological dysfunction Oct 16, 2023
Hold Off a Bit Before Operating on Broken Hips, Study Suggests Older patients on anticoagulants benefit from modest delay Oct 16, 2023
Impending Hemorrhage With C-Section Flagged by Simple Test Uterine tone scores correlate strongly with lethal bleeds Oct 16, 2023
Hemoglobin Targets a Good Idea for Massively Transfused Patients Outcomes improved with values approaching 10 g/dL Oct 16, 2023
Suzanne Somers Dies; FDA Plans to Ban Hair Relaxers; Health Worker Minimum Wage Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 16, 2023
Feds Hope to Cut Sepsis Deaths by Hitching Medicare Payments to Treatment Stats Treatment delays can undermine a patient's chance of survival Oct 15, 2023
Gabapentin as Post-Op Painkiller Gets a Cold Shower Placebo-controlled trial offers no justification for widespread use Oct 15, 2023
'Yellow' Blood Products Come With VTE Risk, Study Finds Increased thrombosis, mortality when fresh frozen plasma is used in transfusions Oct 15, 2023
Yes, It Matters Who Manages Sedation During Interventional Radiology Procedures Study finds outcomes differ according to providers' training Oct 14, 2023
A Simple Way to Determine if a Patient Is Really Allergic to Penicillin Delabeling strategy carries little risk, needs minimal testing, and no specialist consult Oct 14, 2023
Wrongful Death Suit Filed After Patient Waited Hours in Emergency Room Lobby Death of 41-year-old mother of three was preventable, husband says Oct 13, 2023
Cryoprecipitate, REBOA Flop for Improving Major Hemorrhage Outcomes The first randomized trials of both approaches failed Oct 13, 2023
Medical Tourists Bring Home Fatal Fungal Infections High mortality in outbreak linked to anesthesia in Mexico Oct 13, 2023
ECMO Has Become a Harder Sell in Severe COVID-19 Studies show decreased use, cast doubt on clinical benefit Oct 13, 2023
Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios Win Some Hard-Fought Ground But opposition from most hospital groups remains fierce Oct 12, 2023
