Amid increased federal pressures, more than 20 hospitals and health systems have discontinued transgender care for patients younger than 19. Here’s what to know: 1. Since 2021, 27 states have enacted laws that prohibit access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy…

Increasing access and coverage for healthcare services for all women, with a specific focus on Black women, is crucial to closing racial disparities in maternal outcomes, according to a report from the McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility.  In 2023, the…

Hospitals have long worked to ease nurse shortages, but now face a catch-22: the same career advancement programs designed to support and retain nurses are also contributing to more leaving the bedside. As more experienced nurses retire and younger nurses…

A large-scale, real-world analysis of 15,639 patients treated with Collagenase SANTYL◊ Ointment underscores the clinical and economic benefits of early enzymatic debridement in wound management. Using NetHealth registry data from 2020–2023, the retrospective study, led by Boxuan Li, PhD, and…

A law firm filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 against a New York City hospital’s construction company, alleging the company failed to treat bacteria-infected water in its cooling towers, leading to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak.  City officials have identified live Legionella…

Amarillo, Texas-based Northwest Surgical Center and the Northwest Physicians Group – Specialty Clinic evacuated around 200 people on Aug. 19 after a broken pipe flooded the facility, according to a news release from the Amarillo Fire Department shared with Becker’s.…

Sixty-one percent of physicians said their patients were influenced by medical misinformation or disinformation a moderate amount or a great deal of the time over the past year, a recent Physicians Foundation survey found. The nonprofit research group surveyed 1,002…

Northwestern Medical Center is temporarily pausing surgeries as it investigates small particulate matter found on sterilized surgical trays.  In an Aug. 19 post on its website, the St. Albans, Vt.-based hospital said it is working to address “very small particulates”…

Orlando-based University of Central Florida opened a new nurse training facility, made possible in part by financial support from three Florida health systems. The Dr. Phillips Nursing Pavilion will enable UCF to graduate an additional 150 licensed nurses each year,…

The Texas Department of State Health Services has declared the state’s measles outbreak over, marking more than 42 days since the last reported case in any affected county in West Texas.  Since late January, Texas has confirmed 762 measles cases,…