New Hampshire is the first state to require physicians to obey some patients’ wishes for sterilization with respect to reproductive health. The legislation, signed into law on July 15, takes effect Sept. 13. Physicians might require patients to sign an…
Patient Safety & Outcomes
About 80% of emergency department visits of terminally ill nursing home residents are potentially avoidable, according to a study published July 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Researchers analyzed Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers program…
After being born 133 days premature, a 1-year-old boy in Iowa holds the Guinness World Records’ title for most premature baby. On July 5, 2024, Nash Keen was born to Randall and Mollie Keen at a gestational age of 147…
A growing number of hospitals and health systems no longer provide gender-affirming surgeries for minors, citing a January executive order from President Donald Trump. The order instructed health insurers to exclude coverage for pediatric transgender surgeries and hormone treatments. In…
Almost 50 years ago, EHR pioneer and Harvard Medical School professor Warner Slack, MD, said patients’ insight is the “largest and least utilized resource in healthcare.” Today, health systems are working to bring patients into clinical decisions — and increasingly,…
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Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, or the sudden cessation of heavy drinking among people with alcohol use disorder, is associated with higher risks of surgical complications, according to surgeons at the Ohio State University in Columbus. The condition is also linked to…
An HHS agency has directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to improve national monitoring and to reopen an investigation into a Louisville, Ky.-based organ procurement organization. The Health Resources and Services Administration is pursuing “a major initiative to begin…
Wearing a large metallic chain, an unauthorized 61-year-old man entered an MRI room in Westbury, N.Y., on July 16 and was drawn into the machine. He died the next day, according to local authorities. A scan was in process when…
Recent Medicaid policy changes will result in 1,484 additional deaths and nearly 100,000 preventable hospitalizations per year, according to a study published July 16 in JAMA Health Forum. Two weeks before President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill…
Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare will receive the American Hospital Association’s 2025 Quest for Quality Prize during the upcoming AHA Leadership Summit in Nashville. The Quest for Quality Prize honors organizations that have shown innovation in improving care quality, according to a…