Preventive medicine is the specialty with the highest lifestyle balance, while neurosurgery is the lowest, according to a Marit Health report.  Marit analyzed more than 24,400 anonymous salary and schedule surveys from full-time physicians to create the Lifestyle Balance Index.…

“Is pneumonia contagious?” is the most-Googled respiratory health question in the U.S., drawing an estimated 137,000 searches per month, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from healthcare staffing firm Soliant Health. The data offer a glimpse at patients’ health concerns…

Adult medical specialties posted the largest increase in median work relative value unit productivity from 2025 to 2026, the second consecutive year the category has led on productivity growth, according to a survey from SullivanCotter. The Chicago-based consulting firm released…

Healthcare has become remarkably sophisticated at solving technical problems and remarkably poor at solving human ones.  We have more data, more technology, more expertise and more management tools than ever before. Yet many of our hardest problems remain stubbornly unsolved…

The number of U.S. hospitals to earn the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet designation five or more times has grown to 144, up from 136 in March. Magnet recognition is the ANCC’s highest honor for nursing excellence. Hospitals can apply…

Suicide moved into the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2024, even as the number of suicide deaths declined from the year before. The finding comes from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics’ Sept. 22 report,…

Ruston, La.-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center has been removed from a 90-day Medicare termination track after clearing all condition-level deficiencies identified in the recent regulatory survey process, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s. The spokesperson said the Louisiana Department of…

Seven hospitals have earned the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet designation seven times — the most of any hospitals in the country. The Magnet Recognition Program is the ANCC’s highest honor for nursing excellence. A designation is valid for four…

Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health’s research arm, Avera Research Institute, is partnering with two South Dakota universities to establish a statewide research center backed by an $11.1 million National Institutes of Health award over five years. The South Dakota Center…

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network launched a new national recruitment and loan repayment program for certified registered nurse anesthetists. In the initiative, AHN will provide qualified students up to $110,000 in employer-sponsored student loan repayment, paid out over their first three…