Cyclosporiasis has sickened more than 18,000 people in 2026, marking the largest outbreak of the parasitic infection in history, according to a July 29 CDC update. Three updates: 1. The CDC has confirmed 7,725 cyclosporiasis cases and 465 hospitalizations across…

When I read the recent Becker’s Hospital Review brief, “Rural hospital CEO sees ‘no hope in the rural health transformation funds,'” I understood the frustration behind the headline. For decades, rural hospitals have been asked to do more with less.…

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-largest on record and among the fastest-spreading in history. At least 3,553 confirmed cases have been reported since mid-May, according to July 31 data from the World Health…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is betting the bond between a parent and child can be observed as reliably as blood pressure and taught to tens of thousands of clinicians nationwide. The bet has a new home. On July 22, CHOP…

More than one-third of invasive mold disease cases at four Atlanta hospitals occurred in patients without classic risk factors, according to a CDC surveillance report published July 30. The finding suggests surveillance and clinician suspicion built only around the usual…

Mid-career nurses, defined as those with five to 15 years of experience, are now the most burned-out group, a finding that comes as no surprise to nurse leaders. At about three to five years of experience, nurses become very comfortable…

Clinical cases of Candida auris more than doubled nationwide between 2022 and 2024, according to CDC data released in July. The CDC recorded 6,304 clinical cases across 43 states and Washington, D.C., in 2024 — the most recent year available…

Nursing workforce planning formulas may carry a structural error embedded since at least 1960, one that has quietly caused hospitals to systematically underbudget nursing staff across decades of textbooks, credentialing programs and government frameworks. The finding raised a pointed question…

The CDC has replaced two top leaders of its Ebola response team, Medpage Today reported July 29. Incident manager Satish Pillai, MD, and deputy incident manager Peggy Honein, PhD, were replaced by Henry Walke, MD, who is the director of…

Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…