A registered nurse who formerly worked at Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents in New Kent, Va., is calling for it to be shut down after she said she witnessed child abuse at the facility, according to CBS 6.
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A patient was shot by police at West Carson, Calif.-based Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Oct. 6, according to NBC Los Angeles.
More than 80 percent of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine this spring had neurological symptoms, according to a study published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology.
Increasing unemployment rates triggered by an economic recession are linked to a rise in hospitalizations involving children, a study published in Health Affairs found.
In today’s healthcare environment, it’s more important than ever to make sure childbirth is a safe, pleasant experience. Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., has adopted enhanced recovery after cesarean section protocols, or ERACS, to ensure a safe and positive…
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Chronic wounds, like pressure injuries and diabetic foot ulcers, affect more than 6 million people in the U.S.1
Increased nurse staffing levels and intensivist hours were linked to significantly lower sepsis rates at a sample of Massachusetts hospitals, a study published in Critical Care Nurse found.
New York City-based Columbia University scientists have identified the bacteria linked to post-infectious hydrocephalus, the most common cause of pediatric hydrocephalus — a condition in which fluids build up in the cavities deep in the brain.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a machine used to pump and oxygenates a patient's blood outside the body, allowing the heart and lungs to rest, helped a majority of critically ill COVID-19 patients avoid death, a new study shows.
U.S. hospital admissions that are not linked to COVID-19 have partially rebounded since the pandemic's start, but they remain low for patients in majority-Hispanic neighborhoods, according to a new study in Health Affairs.