After serving as a member of the Latin Kings gang during his youth, Luis Cardona, 50, is taking on a new role as a government bureaucrat in the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services in Maryland, according to…
Integration & Physician Issues
A fire at a St. Louis warehouse Wednesday burned "hundreds" of toys meant for patients at Shriners Hospital for Children-St. Louis, according to CBS-3 News.
Roughly half (55 percent) of surveyed physicians said they have been named in a malpractice lawsuit, according to a recent report by Medscape.
SynerMed, a Monterey Park, Calif.-based company that manages physician practices across California, is shutting down.
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health, which owns and operates the newly rebranded John R. Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo, reportedly issued a policy restricting pediatric nurses from wearing printed scrubs, according to WKBW Buffalo reports.
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New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine has reportedly accepted numerous gifts and donations from members of a prominent family that partially owns Purdue Pharma, one of the pharmaceutical companies some people believe contributed to the opioid crisis in…
The last patient receiving treatment at a Las Vegas-area hospital was discharged Nov. 11, roughly six weeks after the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 individuals and injured 500-plus people, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A University of Memphis (Tenn.) Loewenberg College of Nursing assistant professor came under fire for comments she made about White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, according to the Commercial Appeal.
Medicare patients receiving treatment for common conditions such as pneumonia or heart failure are more likely to die within 30 days after seeing a hospitalist instead of their primary care physician in the hospital, according to a new study in…
Hospitalized patients may see lower mortality rates if seen by their primary care physician rather than a hospitalist, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.