Nurses are less likely to leave when they have greater responsibility for patient care, according to an article published in Harvard Business Review. The study followed 430 full-time ICU nurses at a large U.S. hospital over 26 months. Researchers analyzed…

Minnesota is the top-paying state for four physician specialties when adjusted for cost of living. Becker’s used the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics salary data, released May 15, to determine the hourly pay rate by state and used 2025 cost-of-living…

A wave of new medical schools has opened or broken ground across the U.S. in the last few years — an expansion driven by a projected physician shortage that the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates could reach 86,000 by…

The Trump administration plans to send U.S. citizens exposed to Ebola to Kenya for observation and treatment, three people with knowledge of the plans told The New York Times. Here’s the latest on the Ebola outbreak. 1. Dozens of public…

In 2025, an ECRI database logged more than 70,000 patient falls, and working-age adults accounted for nearly 3 in 10 of them, according to a May 26 report.  ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization, analyzed 71,456 falls reported to its…

Washington, D.C.-based George Washington University, Medical Faculty Associates and King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services have reached a definitive agreement regarding a new academic affiliation arrangement for George Washington University Hospital and Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center.  The deal…

Four Massachusetts hospitals and universities are partnering to launch nursing apprenticeships. The program is funded by $240,000 in grants from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. They will be implemented by the Massachusetts Nursing Council on Workforce Sustainability…

The FDA reviewed 96 reports of child deaths following COVID-19 vaccination and found no cases that were “certain” to be linked to the vaccines, according to a Dec. 5, 2025, memorandum made public this month. The reports were submitted to…

Ebola cases are now nearing 1,000 — up from 750 as of May 22 — and are outpacing prevention operations. “We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment, the epidemic is outpacing us,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros…

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has signed a Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act declaration, providing liability protection to manufacturers, distributors and healthcare providers involved in the development and use of medical countermeasures against Andes hantavirus. The declaration covers…