Hospitals across the United States are always looking for ways to reduce costs and avoid medical malpractice lawsuits, while not sacrificing quality of health care. So how are hospitals impacted when ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. My patient’s wife glared at me from across his bed, where she stood ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient's infected lungs and built "artificial lungs" ...

When Arinze Nkemdirim Okere worked as the pharmacist for a hospital in Tallahassee, Fla., he noticed that discharged patients would regularly return, often for issues that could have been easily ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated to add comment from MDHHS. Michigan isn’t doing a sufficient job protecting the rights of public mental health services recipients. The Office of Recipient Rights ...

Gene therapies for rare diseases are frequently developed then discarded by drug companies because they can’t afford to produce the treatment for more patients. Gene therapies for rare diseases are ...

The therapeutic efficacy of the cardiac glycoside digitoxin in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction is not established. In this international, double-blind, placebo-controlled ...

At a Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing, Rep. Van Duyne emphasized the need to modernize Medicare Advantage, especially regarding delays from prior authorization. She backed bipartisan reforms ...

Aden Duale Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Health speaking during the official inauguration of the benefits package and tariffs advisory panel at Afya House on 26th May 2025. [Wilberforce ...

Medicine is changing faster than most people realize. While headlines trumpet breakthroughs like new cancer treatments or cutting-edge robotics, subtle shifts are transforming how patients are ...

DETROIT, MI -- Three Detroit-area hospitals were among the lowest 1% of U.S hospitals in patient safety this spring. Detroit Medical Center’s Detroit Receiving and Sinai-Grace hospitals each received ...