A nephrology unit at Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital has lowered Clostridioides difficile infections by 90% since 2023. Leaders at the hospital credit the progress to the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, or CUSP, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,…
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Between 2003 and 2023, the national rate of unintentional falls increased more than 70% among adults 65 and older, according to CDC data published June 18. Fall death rates increased for several age groups over 65. For adults ages 65…
Job cuts at the National Institutes of Health have left many cancer patients in limbo as they wait on their specialized treatment to be completed, The Washington Post reported June 18. Here’s what to know: 1. As of April, the…
Maine has become the second state in the U.S. to adopt legislation changing the “physician assistant” title to “physician associate.” The Maine State Legislature passed the bill June 2, and it was enacted June 16. The title change follows a…
A Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center team has performed a fully robotic heart transplant. The procedure marks the first fully robotic heart transplant to be performed on an adult patient in the U.S., according to a June 17 news…
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A proposed $793 billion cut to federal Medicaid spending is projected to cause 16,642 premature deaths among adults each year as Americans lose coverage, according to a study published June 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study from…
Patients whose first language is Spanish are more likely to acquire certain hospital-associated infections than those whose first language is English, according to a study by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Infection prevention personnel at Kaiser Permanente reviewed 6,813 publicly reported…
HHS officials ordered CMS to provide the personal data of Medicaid enrollees to the Department of Homeland Security in June, according to an exclusive report from the Associated Press. The shared data includes the immigration status of Medicaid enrollees in California,…
In the first half of 2025, eight systems have performed first-of-their-kind procedures and clinical treatments. 1. Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Heart and Vascular Institute physicians completed the world’s first robotic transcatheter aortic valve replacement explant and aortic valve replacement. The patient…
The world’s first patient to successfully receive a CRISPR gene-editing treatment was discharged from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on June 2, ABC News reported. KJ Muldoon, a 10-month-old who was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, received the…