Researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are working to understand how a condition that can be difficult to spot, known as patient-ventilator asynchrony — PVA for short — may affect children who need ventilator support. The research is an area th…
In February, a patient died at Loretto Hospital — a safety-net hospital on Chicago’s West side — after no one was around to treat the individual in the emergency department, according to a CMS inspection report.
The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its support of gender-related treatments for children while also saying it will systematically review related medical research, according to an Aug. 4 New York Times report.
A patient escaped a Maryland psychiatric hospital after an accomplice shot out the window and drove them away, police told ABC affiliate WMDE Aug. 2.
CMS will increase payments to hospitals for treating homeless patients and implementing equitable quality measures aimed at reducing preventable harm, the agency said Aug. 1.
A 33-year-old quadriplegic patient was allegedly dumped out of a wheelchair outside of Phoenix-based Valleywise Health’s Maryvale campus without receiving treatment on June 14, Fox 10 Phoenix reported July 27.
More than two patients have laboratory evidence of tuberculosis from a contaminated lot of human bone tissue products sold to hospitals, the CDC confirmed to Becker’s on July 27.
The White House is launching a program to help surgeons remove cancerous tumors more accurately to improve patient outcomes.
Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora has created the state’s first precision medicine institute to better integrate personalized care into patients’ treatment.
Anchorage-based Alaska Native Medical Center has submitted a corrective plan after federal regulators revoked the hospital’s “deemed status,” the Anchorage Daily News reported July 26.
