The nonprofit parent organization of OpenAI — the Open AI Foundation — has given $40 million to Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to generate data that can be used to develop more precise, personalized cancer vaccines.  UNC…

As the population ages and the demand for care climbs, health systems — and nurse executives in particular — face a persistent challenge: there are not enough nurses. In 2025, the national RN vacancy rate was 8.6%, and the federal…

If hospitals with higher infection rates for heart surgery patients reduced rates, they could prevent about 2,600 infections annually and reduce Medicare spending by $441 million, Michigan Medicine researchers found. The study, published Aug. 6 in The Journal of Thoracic…

Ambient artificial intelligence handed many physicians their evenings back. For nurses, the same promise is proving harder to keep, and the reason is buried in the flow sheet. Physician ambient scribes listen to a visit and draft a narrative note…

A Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality program cut hospital-onset bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by 65%. The study, published Aug. 27 in JAMA Network Open, implemented the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety…

The New York City Health Department ordered 10 cooling towers, including one at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, to be drained, cleaned and disinfected by Sept. 14 after preliminary testing found Legionella bacteria in each. As of Sept. 12, nine people…

Shared decision-making is the latest gold standard in medicine, but some experts worry it’s veering too close to full patient autonomy, Medscape reported Sept. 14. “We’ve swung all the way to the other end, which is actually an inaccurate understanding…

In 2024, 71.5% of adults reported experiencing fatigue at least some days in the past three months, a Sept. 3 CDC report found.  The CDC used 2024 National Health Interview Survey data to estimate fatigue symptoms among about 27,000 adults…

The CDC has issued its final update on a multistate cyclospora outbreak that sickened 12,883 people, hospitalized 570 and killed two across 21 states, according to a Sept. 11 food safety alert. The agency said the outbreak has ended and…

A 40-year-old woman died Sept. 12 from measles complications in Jefferson County, Pa., marking the state’s third measles-related death of 2026 and the first reported outside hard-hit Lancaster County. Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong confirmed the death Sept. 12, calling…