Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia will collaborate with Staten Island, N.Y.-based Richmond University Medical Center to provide anesthesia services, according to a Sep. 1 news release.

Waterbury, Conn.-based Saint Mary's Hospital has opened a 'serenity suite' to support staff resiliency and wellbeing. 

Medical schools across the nation experienced disruptions to pathway programs and other measures intended to boost diversity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study published Aug. 29 in JAMA Network Open found. 

The California Senate passed a bill Aug. 25 that would allow regulators to punish physicians for spreading misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19.

Congress should focus on enacting permanent solutions to address medical student debt and the "shrinking primary care workforce," Sterling Ransone Jr., MD, wrote for The Hill Aug. 27.

Most clinicians in the U.S. safety net practices reported "moral distress" during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an Aug. 26 report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health and Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine — a historically Black institution — have joined forces with the intent of improving health equity by training diverse clinicians. 

The Biden administration on Aug. 24 released plans to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for individuals earning less than $125,000 a year. While medical residents and nursing school graduates may benefit from the relief, fully trained, practicing physicians likely will not qualify. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines health equity as, “Every person having the opportunity to attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.”  It is indeed a noble pursuit, but without access to qualified physicians financially able to provide services to underserved populations, it is nothing more than a myth.

Medical chiefs from four of US News & World Report's best hospitals or health systems recently spoke with Becker's Hospital Review about the best advice they've received. 

Forty-one percent of physicians have seen other clinicians behave inappropriately in the workplace, up from 35 percent in 2021, Medscape's 2022 "Physicians Behaving Badly: Stress and Hardship Trigger Misconduct" report found.

The Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has had a domino effect on all aspects of reproductive health as clinicians work to navigate what it means for their practices and patients alike. 

More patients across the U.S. are seeking tubal sterilization in light of the Supreme Court's June 24 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, The Washington Post reported Aug. 15.

Information about a patient's initial diagnosis can influence physicians offering a second opinion and may even lead to incorrect diagnoses, according to a study published Aug. 10 in JAMA Dermatology.

Healthcare systems have started residency programs and partnerships to address workforce shortages.

Fourteen medical students from historically Black college and university medical schools will be working for the first time on the staffs of eight NFL teams this upcoming season, The Washington Post reported Aug. 10.

Primary care providers don't have nearly enough time to provide guideline-recommended preventive, chronic disease and acute care, according to a new study. 

In letters to the House and Senate, medical groups urged Congress to pass the Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act, which incentivizes foreign physicians to serve in underserved communities. The bill would extend the Conrad 30 waiver program, which allows these international medical graduates to remain in the United States. 

Below are brief biographies of the chief medical officers at the hospitals that took the top 10 spots in U.S. News & World Report's 2022-23 best hospital rankings.

The latest stick thrown in the post-Roe wildfire is cancer treatments for pregnant women, The New York Times reported July 23.