Variations in newborn screening tests between states leave some children undiagnosed and untreated for rare conditions that require early intervention, according to Bloomberg.com.

Indianapolis-based Riley Hospital for Children shut down its 20-bed psychiatric unit this spring, just three years after the facility opened in 2016, according to The Indianapolis Star.

Most hospitals do not meet The Leapfrog Group's surgical volume standards, which outline the minimum number of surgeries a hospital must report annually to limit the risk of patient harm, according to the group's 2019 Inpatient Surgery Report.

Overdose-related deaths have fallen for the first time since 1990, according to preliminary CDC data cited by The New York Times.

Almost all medical residents — 93 percent — say salary potential influenced their specialty choice, at least to some degree, according to a survey conducted by Medscape. 

Nurse practitioners can solve the issue of limited healthcare access in the U.S., wrote Sophia L. Thomas, DNP, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, in an op-ed for The Hill.

The Joint Commission is investigating the death of a South Carolina patient who died after being improperly restrained by state mental health employees, reports The State.

Kaiser Permanente researchers created a machine learning algorithm to sort sepsis patients into subgroups, which could better inform treatment options, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

The World Health Organization declared Ebola a public health emergency of international concern July 17, the fifth such declaration for a viral outbreak, according to The Hill.

Some nurses may tell women in labor to hold off on pushing if the physician is not yet present, an action that can be dangerous for the mother and baby, according to Vice.