Approximately 12 million doses of the Sanofi Pasteur monovalent 2009 (H1N1) influenza vaccine in pre-filled syringes will have a shorter expiration period than indicated on the label, according to a health alert by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Federal stimulus funding helped bolster hospitals flooded nationwide with uninsured Americans who lost their jobs in the recession, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

Higher copayments, which are supposed to make patients think twice before ordering unnecessary care, may also be stopping them from getting the care they need, according to a research study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

California has fined 13 hospitals for medical errors that caused or were likely to have caused serious injury or death to patients in 2008 and 2009, according to a release from the California Department of Public Health.

Citing federal statistics, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says uninsured adults were more likely in 2007 to have problems accessing a physician specialist than people who had insurance coverage, according to a report by AHA News Now.

Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…

Anesthesiologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have developed a simple, but highly effective patient surveillance system that has decreased the number of rescue calls and ICU transfers in postsurgical patients, according to a news release from the American…

A poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that Americans who oppose the health reform bills in Congress would still support several specific provisions, according to a release by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The emergency department is one of the most critical departments within a hospital because a hospital's overall perception is largely dependent of the success or failure of its ED, says Quint Studer, founder of the Studer Group. As recent media…

One example of the Cleveland Clinic's increasing use of digital technology is the electronic reminders it sends to anesthesiologists to carry out a patient safety task, according to Marc Harrison, MD, chief medical operations officer at the clinic.