A recent blog post by ECG Management Consultants discusses the importance of academic medical centers (AMCs) needing to understand the full extent of their ependitures, in regards to research, in order to successfully manage their institutional investments. 

The Leapfrog Group released its fall 2018 Hospital Safety Grades Nov. 8, assigning "A" through "F" letter grades to more than 2,600 acute care hospitals for patient safety performance.

  Canadian researchers conducted a study investigating how coffee can protect the human brain and found it depends on the roast, according to USA Today.

Researchers at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine found better neurocognitive outcomes in pediatric brain tumor patients receiving proton therapy than X-ray radiation therapy, according to Imagining Technology News.

Artificial intelligence tools trained to detect pneumonia on chest X-rays significantly decreased in performance when tested on data at multiple health systems, a study published in PLOS Medicine found.

  orvallis, Ore.-based Samaritan Health Services hospitals will limit visitors to its birthing centers starting Nov. 15, to protect mothers and newborns from potential flu viruses, according to the NewsGuard.

The world could prevent 75 percent of deaths linked to antibiotic resistance by spending just $2 per person annually on antibiotic stewardship measures, according to a Nov. 7 report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston created a predictive modeling system to help inform clinical decisions for sepsis patients in the emergency room.

Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio plan to investigate whether malaria could offer protection against the Ebola virus, according to Texas Standard.

Monitoring cystic fibrosis patients' blood antibiotic concentrations could help improve clinical outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics.