Nurses spend up to 41% of their workdays in electronic health records, according to a 2022 report from the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. 

Officials are preparing for increased risks of the H5N1 bird flu virus rising this autumn and trying to stop it before it can become a pandemic, CNN reported Sept. 12.

Although the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease state in 2013, weight stigma still persists in parts of the healthcare industry, which patients say is undermining care quality. 

Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare recently hired more than 300 registered nurses as part of the University of Kentucky's implementation of a new graduate recruitment program. 

Hospitals are faring better on key quality and safety measures than they were before the pandemic, according to a new report from The American Hospital Association and Vizient. 

Physicians' awareness of a unique condition involving the inability to burp has grown largely due to patients' discussions on Reddit, according to KFF Health News.

Infectious disease physicians spend the most time on electronic health records, nearly twice as much as dermatology physicians, a recent study found.

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper training or experience.

The top city for physicians to retire is Prescott, Ariz., according to a recent ranking from Medscape. 

Cleveland Clinic clinicians recently performed a brain surgery through a patient's eyelid, the health system said Sept. 11.