Trump Administration to End Emergency Abortion Directive Nationwide
2025-06-04
Policy change could have significant implications for health care providers and patientsContinue Reading
Miscommunication Between Health Workers Puts Patients At Risk Regularly
2025-04-15
TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Miscommunication between hospital staff regularly puts patients at risk, a new study says. Poor communications between health care workers contributed to 25% of hospital incidents that put patients’ safety at risk, researchers reported April 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. What’s more,Continue Reading
America’s ERs In Peril, Report Says
2025-04-09
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — America’s emergency rooms are near the breaking point, causing long wait times and boarding of patients awaiting care, a new study says. Essentially, ERs are being asked to serve as health care hubs that offer services far beyond emergency care, according to aContinue Reading
Some Folks Hit With Fees for Using Health Care Message Portals
2025-04-07
MONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Don’t be surprised if you get a bill for that note your doctor sent you through his clinic’s patient portal. About 1 in 7 patients have been billed for messages sent to them through a patient portal, according to a new study publishedContinue Reading
Diarrhea-Causing Bacteria Spreading Undetected Through Hospitals
2025-04-07
MONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A notorious hospital-associated infection has been spreading through hospitals much more readily than people suspected, a new study says. The bacterium Clostridium difficile – commonly called C. diff – spreads within intensive care units more than three times as much as previously thought,Continue Reading
Bedsores More Likely In Short-Staffed Hospitals Leaning On Nurse OT, Travel Nurses
2025-04-04
FRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hospitals could be short-changing patients if they lean too heavily on nurse staffing agencies or overtime hours, a new study says. Patients are much more likely to develop bedsores at short-staffed hospitals that regularly bring in travel nurses or require nurses to workContinue Reading
Low-Income Folks Avoiding The ER Post-Pandemic
2025-03-19
WEDNESDAY, March 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Poor families have continued to avoid going to the emergency room post-pandemic, even as ER numbers bounced back for folks who are better-off, a new study says. During the pandemic, visits to ERs for emergency care dropped by about 30% as lockdowns andContinue Reading
U.S. Facing Critical Hospital Bed Shortage
2025-02-20
THURSDAY, Feb. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. hospitals could face a bed shortage as early as 2032, with occupancy remaining elevated even as the country recovers from the COVID pandemic, a new study suggests. Average hospital occupancy following the pandemic has been about 75%, researchers found, dividing the averageContinue Reading
Almost Half of Rural Americans Face Long Drives for Surgery
2025-02-12
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As closures of rural hospitals across the United States continue, more Americans are facing hour-plus drives to reach surgical centers, two new reports find. By 2020, data show, 99 million Americans already had trouble finding “timely, high-quality and affordable surgical care,” according toContinue Reading
Analysis Predicts Big Drop for U.S. in Global Health Rankings
2024-12-06
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans are falling farther behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to health and life expectancy, a new study shows. Life expectancy in the United States is expected to increase to 79.9 years in 2035 and 80.4 years by 2050,Continue Reading
America’s Rural Hospitals Are Shutting Down Maternity Wards
2024-12-05
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hospitals across America are shuttering their obstetric units, and the issue is most acute for women served by rural hospitals, a new study finds. By 2022, a majority (52%) of rural U.S. hospitals no longer had any maternity ward, compared to 36% ofContinue Reading
Can AI Boost Accuracy of Doctors’ Diagnoses?
2024-11-15
FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — AI can’t yet help doctors improve their ability to diagnose complex conditions, a sobering new study has found. Doctors had about the same diagnostic accuracy whether or not they were using ChatGPT Plus, according to results published recently in the journal JAMA NetworkContinue Reading
1 in 3 Surgery Patients Suffer Complications
2024-11-14
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than a third of surgical patients develop complications as a result of their procedure, a new study shows. About 38% of adult patients suffer an adverse event during or following their surgery, researchers reported Nov. 13 in the BMJ. Nearly half ofContinue Reading
Walking Pneumonia Cases Spike Among Young Kids
2024-10-21
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Walking pneumonia cases are surging among young children in the United States, federal health officials warn. “Bacterial infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae increased in the United States since late spring and have remained high,” a statement issued Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading