The death rate tied to three common, treatable emergency surgical conditions increased about 50% between 1999 and 2020, according to an abstract being presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2026 in Washington, D.C., Sept. 26-29. Researchers at…

Just 2.3% of the 2026 medical school graduates who applied to residency said they would prefer to practice in rural areas, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. The AAMC released the data Sept. 24. It follows the class…

Operating rooms are managing more complex cases, more vendor trays and growing regulatory demands amid persistent workforce pressures. In that environment, relying on careful clinicians and manual processes alone leaves preventable gaps in surgical safety. During a featured session sponsored…

A recent study found 11.3% of healthcare personnel surveyed reported persistent long COVID symptoms. The study, published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, used electronic surveys to collect symptom data at three and six months post-infection from 1,496 healthcare…

The White House has dropped plans for an executive order that would have given federal officials greater authority over grantmaking at the National Institutes of Health, Roll Call reported Sept. 23, citing a person familiar with the matter. The order,…

The CDC reported its first measles death of 2026 but did not say where it happened, while Pennsylvania has reported four measles-associated deaths in August and September.  The agency added the death to its measles dashboard with a note that…

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health has been given an up to $11.2 million, five-year HHS contract to develop a platform to test and validate new technologies designed to improve ICU patient outcomes. The federal program is called CIRCLE — the Critical…

Clinical data from nursing flow sheets is critical intel for health systems increasingly leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence to predict or improve outcomes. However, what makes flow sheets so useful for data abstraction and analysis is also what adds…

Only 13% of hospital-onset sepsis cases met current U.S. criteria for reportable healthcare-associated infections, but an expanded surveillance system could catch many of these potentially preventable events, a recent study found. The study, published Sept. 17 in JAMA Network Open,…

Mount Pleasant-based Central Michigan University broke ground on its $180 million medical education building in Saginaw, WNEM reported Sept. 22. The MyMichigan Health CMU Medical Education Building will be the new home of all medical students at the university. It…