Medline is voluntarily recalling about 324,000 medical scissors used to cut sutures, bandages, gauze and excess skin around a wound.

For Katherine Bianco, MD, director of the maternal congenital heart program at Stanford Medicine Children's Health, the path to healthcare started with an important role model: her mother. 

Loma Linda (Calif.) University Health promoted Denise Robinson, DNP, RN, on Sept. 19 to be the chief nursing officer of its medical center in Murrieta, Calif.

Nancy Littlefield, DNP, RN, will become the CEO of Hospice of the Piedmont Oct. 2 after serving as another system's chief nursing officer for about seven years. 

Atlanta-based Emory University's School of Nursing has announced a partnership with the Georgia Nursing Leadership Coalition to address the nursing shortage across the state. 

A different kind of runway was part of New York Fashion Week for influencers and VIPs: the bed of an MRI machine. 

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System and Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health have restored their access to MyChart after experiencing an outage since Aug. 27. 

HCA Healthcare, a for-profit hospital operator based in Nashville, Tenn., has made leadership changes at several of its hospitals, systems and divisions in 2023.

From a California system agreeing to pay $5 million to settle allegations it submitted false claims to Medi-Cal, to Minnesota charging 18 people in an alleged Medicaid scheme, here are 10 healthcare billing fraud cases Becker's reported since Aug. 31: 

Wyoming has the lowest average death rate for heart attack patients, while Mississippi has the highest, according to CMS data.

A federal judge denied the bulk of Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine's motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought by Memorial Health System over an alleged "smear" campaign, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported Sept. 19.

Brian Boies, MD, was named senior vice president and chief academic officer at Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health.

After working in the hospital industry for several years, one of Walmart Health's newest executives has been pleasantly surprised with the agility of the healthcare "startup."

Hospitals in Maine and Massachusetts have the highest rate of staff members vaccinated against flu, while hospitals in Florida have the lowest, federal data shows. 

The takeover of Burgaw, N.C.-based Pender Medical Center by Novant Health, which plans to turn the facility into a community hospital, took a step forward when county commissioners voted unanimously to approve the transaction, according to a Sept. 18 report from NBC affiliate WECT6 News.

Apple is marketing its devices' health features by touting their ability to save users' lives, The Verge reported.

More than a quarter of the money flowing into health IT in the second quarter of 2023 went to companies specializing in generative artificial intelligence, PitchBook reported.

Private equity deals for health IT companies were down more than half in the second quarter of 2023 compared to a year earlier, according to PitchBook.

The World Health Organization on Sept. 19 published its first-ever report on high blood pressure — a condition behind 10.8 million avoidable deaths every year, according to the report. 

The FDA reduced its therapeutic equivalence rating in Accord Healthcare's tacrolimus oral capsules because of safety concerns, but the generic's approval remains, the agency said Sept. 19.