The National Institutes of Health will no longer categorize basic experimental studies involving humans (BESH) as clinical trials, according to a Jan. 29 announcement from the agency. BESH applications submitted on or after May 25, 2026, will not be subject…

The Oregon Nurses Association is petitioning Vancouver, Wash.-based PeaceHealth to maintain its longstanding partnership with a local emergency physician staffing group, according to a Feb. 12 report from NBC affiliate KMTR. Earlier in February, the health system announced it would…

Tuscaloosa-based University of Alabama is investing more than $80 million to double its nursing program. The expansion is developed in close partnership with the University of Alabama system and the Birmingham-based UAB Health System. When completed, it will be one…

Structural segregation in healthcare is leading many Black Medicare patients to be disproportionately admitted to lower-quality hospitals despite living near high-quality facilities, a Johns Hopkins study found. The study, published Dec. 5 in PLOS One, used 2019 Medicare claims data…

For the first time since the National Council Licensure Examination was revised in 2023, the annual pass rate has decreased, according to new data from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Only 69.1% of nursing candidates passed the…

San Francisco-based UCSF Health has performed its first heart transplant for a patient who received an artificial heart months earlier. The 37-year-old patient came to the system in August with advanced heart failure, according to a Feb. 11 system news…

Of the 34 physicians Nauman Mushtaq, MD, has hired in the last decade, only two have left the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Yet he’s recruited from University of Chicago, Brigham and Women’s, Johns Hopkins and…

Memorial Hospital of Carbon County in Rawlins, Wyo., has paused vaccination services for uninsured and underinsured patients. The change follows the departure of Patti Shue, a pediatric nurse practitioner who oversaw the hospital’s vaccination program, including management of state-supplied vaccines,…

Hospital affiliations with primary care providers are up about 17% in the last four years and are seeing mixed results, a recent Medscape report found. The “Realities of Primary Care Affiliations Report 2026,” published Feb. 6, surveyed 1,363 physicians across…

As virtual nursing gains traction across U.S. hospitals, health systems have reported improvements in staff satisfaction, quality and patient experience. However, many still struggle to quantify how these programs affect operational efficiency. At Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health, virtual nursing is…