The National Institutes of Health plans to launch a public-private partnership in December to speed development of personalized cancer vaccines, according to an Oct. 9 New York Times report. Here are six things to know:
Patient Safety & Outcomes
Increased immigration enforcement is associated with “sharp, persistent” drops in emergency department visits among patients born outside the U.S., but an increase in inpatient admissions rates, a recent study found. The study, published Oct. 5 in JAMA Network Open, analyzed…
Researchers at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have tested a patient-facing conversational AI system with people scheduled for urgent primary care appointments, in what they say is the first prospective real-world study of its kind, according to a study…
Suicide became the 10th-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2024, up from No. 11 in 2023, according to final mortality data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. Suicide deaths fell 1% over the same period, from…
Nearly three decades after researchers first documented that surgeons are paid more for male-specific procedures than comparable female-specific ones, the gap has barely narrowed, and experts say it is now shaping how hospitals allocate operating room time, Vox reported Oct.…
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Patients at for-profit hospitals had higher 30-day mortality and readmission rates than patients at nonprofit hospitals, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia. Nurses at for-profit hospitals were also more…
A coalition of Texas health systems, professional organizations and community groups has launched a five-year plan to eliminate cervical cancer in the state. The Texas Lone Star Cervical Cancer Elimination Plan 2027-2032 was developed by the Cancer Alliance of Texas…
Hospitals’ use of two high-yield practices for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, commonly known as CAUTIs, has stalled or slipped since 2017, according to research published Oct. 6 in JAMA Network Open. Researchers at the VA Ann Arbor (Mich.) Healthcare…
Fusion-guided biopsy transformed how clinicians diagnose prostate cancer, giving radiologists and urologists a precise, shared map of suspicious lesions instead of a blind search pattern. Now, image guidance is expanding beyond biopsy into treatment planning and targeted intervention — a…
After serving a quarter century as a hospitalist and hospital C-suite leader, Kevin Neese, MD, has taken an entrepreneurial path to help fill what he sees as an important need. “Hospitals are excellent at the things that they were built…