In November, CMS placed a Penn Medicine hospital in immediate jeopardy for five hours after a possible preventable death. The corrections were published in late February.
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The risk of preterm birth was 37% higher for mothers involved in a phase 3 respiratory syncytial virus maternal vaccine trial than the control group in a clinical trial led by pharmaceutical giant GSK and researchers from Durham, N.C.-based Duke…
Highlands County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to an active shooter situation at around 11:26 a.m. on March 14 after a 66-year-old man fatally shot his son and himself after bringing the son to AdventHealth Sebring (Fla.) hospital, local authorities say.
Paul Alexander, a Texas man who contracted polio at age 6, which led him to spend the last 72 years in an iron lung for survival, has died, his brother and friends announced March 12 on a GoFundMe page set…
Only 4% of 346 surveyed hospitals fully met recommended discharge practices for patients identified as at risk for suicide, according to a study conducted by The Joint Commission.
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People who live in areas where primary care provider shortages are more severe are at higher risk of requiring emergency surgery, according to new findings from a study led by researchers at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.
In two months, 18 employees of Little Rock-based Arkansas Children's Hospital reported injuries following workplace violence incidents, five of which required medical care, the Arkansas Business reported March 11.
New York City-based NYU Langone Health tested artificial intelligence to see how well it can convert physician notes into accurate lay language that improved patient understanding.
Around 40% of the U.S. adults experience obesity and 50% of patients in need of bariatric surgery will elect to forgo it. Some do so if they do not trust their physician, research from Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center found.
A man in the U.S. developed a parasitic infection in his brain after regularly consuming undercooked bacon, according to a case study published March 7 in the American Journal of Case Reports.