Last month, the FDA warned hospitals to stop giving probiotics to preterm infants following the death of a baby that was linked to the products. Now, some physicians are concerned that a lack of access to the products will subject premature infants to a severe gut disease, The Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 16. 

For the second year straight, March of Dimes has given the U.S. a "D+" for its high preterm birth rate, according to the group's annual report card on maternal and infant health. 

Nearly 14% of the nation's adult population — about 35 million people — have received the new COVID-19 shot, according to updated estimates from the CDC. 

The FDA and CDC are working to deploy more Beyfortus doses as its maker underestimated demand for the first respiratory syncytial virus drug approved for children. 

Stress, burnout and frustration in the workplace have resulted in workforce trends such as "quiet quitting" and "rage applying," and hospitals are taking aim at the issues that give rise to these movements.

The World Health Organization is elevating loneliness as a "pressing health threat" and organizing leadership to drive evidence-based solutions at a global level.

A Texas nurse became the first Black woman to be inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nurses, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Nov. 16.

On Nov. 16, HHS launched an advisory committee on long COVID, a condition that studies have found affects 1 in 10 COVID-19 patients. 

The American Association of Physician Associates is still in the early stages of a sweeping effort to rebrand the PA profession — and sunset the title "physician assistant" — but hopes to make important strides in 2024, AAPA CEO Lisa Gables told Becker's. 

With the inflation of prescriptions for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, physicians began seeing a startling amount of regurgitation and aspiration in surgeries. 

In conversations about the nursing shortage, healthcare leaders often underscore the importance of building a pipeline by stirring interest among younger generations, and getting in front of high schoolers and middle schoolers. But is the industry fully ready to embrace more young nurses?

Salem (Mass.) Hospital is notifying some patients who may have been exposed to infection as a result of the improper administration of an intravenous medicine, Boston 25 News reported Nov. 15.

Over the last decade, Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has significantly reduced the incidence of serious patient safety events across its member hospitals.

The FDA has issued a warning letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy over the sale of unapproved eye drops.

The healthcare sector as a whole received $333.3 billion in philanthropic donations between 2015 and 2022. But despite nursing being one of the largest groups of clinicians, nurses received only 1% of those donations, according to a Nov. 15 report released by the American Nurses Foundation.

The life expectancy gap between men and women in the U.S. has widened to the largest difference since 1996, with women expected to live almost six years longer than men, according to a recent study.

In just one year, the nurse practitioner profession has added 30,000 employees to the workforce, according to data released Nov. 13 by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Sixty percent of children diagnosed with the flu aren't receiving antiviral medications, according to a study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers. 

More than 20% of patients who take Paxlovid experience a virologic rebound of COVID-19 after stopping treatment, according to research published Nov. 13 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. 

Already, Valley fever costs about $1.5 billion per year in Arizona and California, and experts anticipate the fungus that causes the illness will widen its reach in the country over the next few decades, The Washington Post reported Nov. 13.