Patient Safety & Outcomes

Waiting longer than five hours to give antibiotics to a pediatric patient with sepsis increases the risk of death, according to a study published June 5 in JAMA Network Open.

The National Institutes of Health is allocating about $30 million over fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to create a national primary care research network.

Lisa Pisano, a patient who received a pig kidney transplant at New York City-based NYU Langone Health, had it removed after 47 days due to complications, NBC News reported May 31. 

State and federal quality metrics that focus on in-hospital mortality for sepsis patients may unfairly penalize safety-net hospitals, according to a study published May 31 in JAMA Network Open.

After being hospitalized for heart failure, 63% of adults over 65 had reduced kidney function after being discharged, according to a new study from Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine successfully performed a double lung transplant using a new technique in a 56-year-old patient who had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had additional lung damage from a COVID-19 infection.

Piedmont Columbus (Ga.) Regional Midtown is one of the first U.S. hospitals to administer Tzield, a newly approved therapy that delays the progression of Type 1 diabetes by two to seven years. 

When researchers at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan wanted to support more primary care patients in their weight loss journeys, they didn't just add the lucrative new Wegovy or Ozempic treatments to the mix.

Researchers from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center presented data May 21 on an inaugural tool that may help predict newborns' risk for developing respiratory syncytial virus in their lower respiratory tract.

The FDA has given Elon Musk's Neuralink the green light to implant its brain chip into a second person, The Wall Street Journal reported May 20.