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
Have a Story About Private Equity Ownership? The FTC Wants to Hear From You The agency wants to even the healthcare playing field, says FTC chair Lina Khan Oct 12, 2023
Decolonization in Nursing Homes Cuts the Risk of Dangerous Infections Protocol borrowed from the ICU continues to show success Oct 12, 2023
'Surprising' Contribution of Pulmonary Hypertension to ARDS Outcomes Coexisting conditions spell markedly poor clinical course Oct 12, 2023
Intranasal COVID Vaccine Generates Strong Immune Response Plus: Detecting viruses in wastewater and the maternal RSV vaccine for protecting infants Oct 12, 2023
Superbugs Common in Patients on Mechanical Ventilation Those in long-term care facilities are particularly at risk, researcher says Oct 12, 2023
Overdoing Blood Transfusions? JAMA Special Issue Shines a Light Also includes two negative trials in hemorrhage control Oct 12, 2023
Opportunistic Infections Put a Damper on Belatacept After Lung Transplant Center had to refine its use of the kidney-friendlier immunosuppression regimen Oct 11, 2023
Heat-Related Illness Among Farmworkers: How Nurses Can Help Vulnerable population is "bearing the brunt of climate change," researcher says Oct 11, 2023
After-the-Fact Informed Consent for a Clinical Trial? It Can Work in Some Situations Sometimes it's not practical to perform the study any other way Oct 11, 2023
Modest Risks Come With Moving Fast on HF Drugs After Acute Event STRONG-HF analysis details the impact Oct 10, 2023
Malpractice Suits Involving NPs and PAs Can Spell Trouble for Supervising Docs Too Doctors often included even if they didn't see or hear about the patient involved, study finds Oct 10, 2023
Stethoscope Hygiene: The Next Frontier in Infection Control? Prevention is also essential for antimicrobial stewardship Oct 10, 2023
Experts on AI Tell Nurses: 'You Need to Embrace This' And no, you will not be replaced by a robot Oct 09, 2023
Putting an End to the 'Doctor-Nurse Game' Anyone with a doctorate degree should have the right to use the "doctor" title Oct 08, 2023
Moving Forward From Affirmative Action in Medical Schools How will diversity in medicine be affected by Supreme Court ruling? Oct 06, 2023 video
Toxic Megacolon: Day in the Life of a Doctor Make the rounds with Siobhan Deshauer, MD, during a day in the hospital Oct 05, 2023
Who Should Report Serious Medical Errors? And to Whom? A startling study reports that many state medical boards are doing a "dangerously lax job" Oct 05, 2023 video
Treating Systemic 'Moral Injury' in Medicine On uniting providers, administrators, and patients to find solutions together Oct 04, 2023 video
Nasal Sprays Recalled; 75,000 Kaiser Workers Strike; Healthcare AI May Run Amok Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 04, 2023
CDC's Turtle Warning; Largest Healthcare Worker Strike? Docs' Political Landmines Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Oct 03, 2023
Addressing Root Causes: A Call to Tackle the Black Maternal Health Crisis Six practices to improve the quality of perinatal care Oct 03, 2023
A Promising New Approach to Reducing Burnout and Workforce Depletion Change a "vicious cycle" to a "virtuous cycle," an expert suggests Oct 02, 2023
Clean Up the COVID Booster Mess by Returning to a Single-Payer System We must reopen the door to easy preventive care access Oct 02, 2023
Want to Improve the Patient Experience? Let's Start With Discharge Planning. Endless paper summaries don't cut it, it's time to try something new Oct 02, 2023
Primary Care Visits With NPs, PAs on the Rise; C. Diff in the Intensive Care Unit Also in TTHealthWatch: suicide risk among health workers Sep 30, 2023 podcast
Low Tidal Volume Compliance Still Lacking in Mechanical Ventilation Women, shorter patients, those with a high BMI more likely to receive higher tidal volumes Sep 29, 2023
All Struggle With 'Moral Injury' We're constantly asked to put other interests ahead of those of our patients, says Wendy Dean Sep 29, 2023 video
No Benefit to Tight Glucose Control in ICU Trial attempts to settle the controversy once and for all Sep 29, 2023
Dianne Feinstein Dies; Prison for Alzheimer's Fraudsters; Kaiser Strike Looming Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by staff Sep 29, 2023
Medical Residents Receive 100+ Job Offer Contacts, Survey Shows Even so, some say they wish they had picked a different field Sep 27, 2023
Doctor or DNP: Who Is Really Providing Care? Stronger "title protection" legislation can offer patients greater transparency Sep 27, 2023
Primary Care Follow-Up After Emergency Surgery Tied to Fewer Readmissions Odds of 30-day readmissions 67% lower for Medicare beneficiaries with follow-up visit Sep 27, 2023
FTC Sues Anesthesia Group and Its Private Equity Backers Companies accused of extracting "monopoly profits" while growing "monopoly power" Sep 26, 2023
'The Last Straw' Driving Workers Out of Healthcare Unaddressed workplace violence may be a domino further disrupting the system Sep 26, 2023
Higher Suicide Risk in Nurses, Other Health Workers And healthcare work appears more closely tied to increased suicide risk in women than men Sep 26, 2023
What if the Doctor Is Out? Strikes can lead to important changes for interns and residents Sep 23, 2023
Nurses Step Up to Bat on Educating Patients About Climate Change The American Nurses Association pledges to mitigate and help others adapt to climate change Sep 22, 2023
