Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes

Further research into the effects of long COVID-19 has revealed that in addition to the myriad neurological symptoms that have been linked to the disease, face blindness may also be one of them.

Further research into the effects of long COVID-19 has revealed that in addition to the myriad neurological symptoms that have been linked to the disease, face blindness may also be one of them.

A looming shortage of biomedical technicians and engineers, plus the closure of their programs, spells concern for the profession, according to the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.

Clinical and nonclinical healthcare workers have an upward-trending perception of safety culture, but physicians and leaders do not agree, according to a Press Ganey report released March 16. 

In just the 12 years since its establishment, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has brought 44 FDA-approved drugs for rare diseases to the market — and it shows no signs of slowing down.

Northwestern Medicine is pioneering a new treatment for stage 4 cancer patients: double lung transplants.

The narrative that strikes threaten patient safety is not substantiated by current evidence, researchers wrote in a March 10 analysis published in The BMJ. 

The rate of maternal deaths during or shortly after pregnancy rose 40 percent in 2021, making the U.S. the most dangerous place among high-income countries to give birth, The Wall Street Journal reported March 16.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital’s Heart and Vascular Institute has opened a new clinic designated to house what it claims is the “first and only” limb preservation program in the region. 

The FDA reviewed Pfizer’s mid-to-late stage clinical trials of Paxlovid and found “no evidence of a higher rate of symptom rebound or moderate symptom rebound.”