An increasing number of medical schools are adopting lifestyle medicine and preventive care into their curricula, according to a Dec. 18 post from the Association of American Medical Colleges.  Nutrition is one lifestyle medicine component medical schools are readily integrating,…

Nurse turnover and vacancy rates have declined since their pandemic-era peaks but remain slightly elevated, according to the 2025 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report. The report, released in March, includes survey findings from 450 hospitals in…

An Aurora-based Children’s Hospital Colorado team has performed the hospital’s and region’s first heart and liver dual-organ transplant.  Only 38 pediatric heart and liver dual-organ transplants have been performed in the U.S., according to a Dec. 15 news release from…

Many hospitals and health systems are opening new physician residency programs to expand training opportunities for medical students and bolster the pipeline of future physicians. Below are 41 hospitals and health systems launching or announcing new programs in 2025.  Note:…

Influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus infections are rising across the U.S., and in New York, an emerging flu strain is affecting healthcare sites particularly hard.  Leaders of Northwell Health, a 28-hospital system based in New Hyde Park, N.Y., said…

St. Louis-based SSM Health is working to bring more specialty care under value-based compensation models over the next two years, as the health system seeks to extend physician accountability for quality metrics beyond traditional primary care-focused arrangements. The system already…

HHS has canceled several grants worth millions of dollars it had awarded to the American Academy of Pediatrics.  The Washington Post broke the news Dec. 17, reporting that HHS abruptly sunset seven grants this week. In an email with Becker’s,…

Health-related social needs, such as lack of access to food and transportation, are associated with higher utilization of emergency departments, according to research published Dec. 15 in JAMA.  Researchers from Minneapolis-based Allina Health, a 12-hospital system, analyzed more than 160,000…

Measles outbreaks are worsening in several states as the virus spreads nationwide, threatening the disease’s elimination status in the U.S. Five things to know: 1. As of Dec. 9, the CDC had confirmed 1,912 measles cases in 42 states —…

Breaking from a position it held for 34 years, the CDC said Dec. 16 it recommends shared decision-making between parents and clinicians on whether to administer the first hepatitis B vaccine to infants whose mothers test negative for the virus. …