A physician is suing Henry Ford Health in Detroit for age discrimination, casting a spotlight on an ongoing debate that strikes at the heart of patient safety and medical professionalism: age-based cognitive assessments for physicians.

While unexpected hospital readmissions for pediatric patients have remained largely unchanged in Massachusetts since 2017, the length of stay from these readmissions is going up.

New survey findings indicate racial and ethnic minority medical students are more likely to say they plan on practicing in medically underserved areas upon graduation.

Primary care had the largest increase in reported median wRVU (work relative value units) productivity from 2022 to 2023, driven by the 2021 physician fee schedule changes to evaluation and management wRVU values, according to one new survey.

MetroHealth's spinoff imaging company opened a fourth location in Westlake, Ohio.

Tempe-based Arizona State University has selected Phoenix for headquarters of ASU Health, a new 'learning health ecosystem' that includes a medical school and expanded alliance with Mayo Clinic. 

Approximately 1 in 6 retirees are considering returning to the workforce, according to a study from Paychex, a human resources consulting firm.

Cardiologist was the top-paid physician specialty in 2022, followed by orthopedic surgeon and pediatric surgeon, according to an Oct. 16 report from USA Facts, a nonprofit organization that conducts data analysis.

Recent surveys found many physicians are Googling patients, which may lead to ethical issues, Pavan Amara, a student nurse, journalist and women's rights activist based in London, wrote in an op-ed piece published Oct. 18 in The BMJ.

Cleveland Clinic in partnership with the Arthritis Foundation will soon develop the largest repository in the country for osteoarthritis clinical trials, housed in a new Osteoarthritis Imaging Center, according to an Oct. 16 news release.

The American College of Surgeons has released an online version of a course designed to equip physicians with best practices for responding to mass casualty incidents. 

Construction is finally complete for a new 373-bed hospital in Utica, N.Y., funded by a $300 million healthcare facility transformation program grant from the state's Department of Health.

Detroit-based Sinai-Grace Hospital went on lockdown Oct. 14 after reports of a person entering the hospital with what they believed was a gun, Fox affiliate WJBK reported.

A new predictive analytics model could help medical schools increase the socio-economic diversity of students in their MD programs, Tiber Health, a global network of medical universities, found.

The American College of Emergency Physicians has withdrawn a white paper from 2009 on "excited delirium," saying the term should not be used in civil or criminal cases. 

Emergency medicine has the most active physicians of eight specialties studied in a recent Statista report.

All the states with the highest rate of physicians per 10,000 civilians are in the Northeast, according to a Statista report.

Thirty-nine percent of physicians surveyed in a new report said they have a side gig going, usually to earn some additional money.

Fifty-one percent of clinicians prefer the recently revised professional title "physician associate" compared to 49 percent who prefer the original title of "physician assistant," according to new research from Barton Associates, a healthcare recruiting firm. 

The Texas Hospital Association is pushing back against a bill on the state senate floor that was introduced this week that would prevent employers from enforcing COVID-19 vaccination policies.