The American Nurses Foundation has partnered with the United Health Foundation to launch the Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support program, which is designed to transform organizational culture surrounding mental health. 

Hospitals with lower staffing levels in infection prevention and control teams have higher rates of healthcare-associated infections, according to an Oct. 10 study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Across the healthcare landscape, more and more conversations are focusing on health inequity. Specific to pulse oximetry, recent research, media, and regulatory discussions have been raising awareness around disparities in care.

A physician at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital successfully performed the first ovarian transplant procedure in New England, for a patient whose ovary was removed and preserved 18 years earlier. 

Residency unions have grown in prominence, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unions can provide resident physicians collective bargaining power and the ability to advocate for improved working conditions. Although no study has demonstrated improvement in resident happiness,…

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has opened a new center to care for patients with complex chronic conditions, such as long COVID-19 and Lyme disease. 

The emergency medicine specialty is poised to develop its own platform to handle residency applications, rather than rely on the Electronic Residency Application Service, Medpage Today reported Oct. 9.

From patients who want to be cryopreserved to the matter of whether physicians are obligated to take Medicaid patients, Medscape found physicians have mixed reactions to a number of "hot topics" in medicine.

Arizona State University selected Scottsdale, Ariz.-based HonorHealth as its primary clinical affiliate for its upcoming ASU's School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering.

The Liaison Committee of Medical Education has responded to an opinion piece published Oct. 3 in The Wall Street Journal that claimed the medical school education process is "outdated, expensive and misguided."