Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March.
The U.N. health agency reported Tuesday that tens of thousands of tons of extra medical waste has strained waste management systems and is threatening both health and the environment.
Linguistic training is needed as electronic health records play more an increasingly significant role in healthcare, Princeton, UCLA and Harvard researchers write.
U.S. health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine.
Beaumont Health and Grand Rapids' Spectrum Health will launch as one integrated health system on Feb. 1.
Seven insurers cover nearly 70% of Medicare Advantage enrollees as new entrants struggle to gain ground.
With omicron sweeping across the globe, scientists are racing to pinpoint the cause of the bedeviling condition and find treatments before a potential explosion in long COVID cases.
In a few short months, states have gone from donating surplus rapid COVID-19 tests to states with shortages to hoarding them as demand driven by the spike in cases strains supplies.
COVID infections are again spiking at nursing homes around the country.
What does it mean if a person’s rapid antigen test result comes back positive after five days of isolation due to COVID-19? According to the experts, that person is most likely still carrying a viral load high enough to infect others.
Hospitals across Missouri are asking staff members and administrators to take on additional duties to help deal with the current surge in COVID-19 patients.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that hospital employees are being asked to pick up shifts helping nurses by doing things like grabbing supplies or answering phones, or by filling absences in areas such housekeeping and patient transport.
“Hospital administrators are pushing wheelchairs, accountants are emptying trash cans and marketing professionals are serving meals — whatever it takes to make sure that our co-workers who provide hands-on patient care are able to focus on their patients,” said Steve Mackin, Mercy’s incoming president.
At Mercy South Hospital, Katie Horton decided to spend her weekends and evenings over the last two weeks scrubbing patient rooms and helping nurses care for patients. Normally the 49-year-old works from home helping hire people for nonclinical jobs at the hospital.
“It was eye-opening. I work from home. I’ve been very safe through it all, and that has certainly been a blessing,” she said. “I just felt like it was good to be able to see through the eyes of the person doing these jobs.”
COVID-19 cases have been declining in the St. Louis area over the past couple weeks but the number of patients in hospitals remain near the highest levels of the pandemic.
“Our hospitals remain full, our emergency departments are full and there’s not a lot of room in our (intensive care units) either,” said Dr. Alex Garza, co-director of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force. “So, although this is improving, many of our staff continue to be out because of COVID or because they are taking care of a loved one or a child whose school has unfortunately closed because of COVID.”
Both Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings have issued downgrade warnings to 52-hospital Providence following its separation from Hoag.
While emergency rooms and intensive care units have been filled with the physically ill during the pandemic, mental health centers are equally overwhelmed.
Amid industry burnout and the "Great Resignation," health systems including Rush and Advocate Aurora are giving workers cash bonuses.
For groups of medical students, amid all the studying, rotations, research and clinical volunteering, there is another area of professional growth and healthcare activism.
HSAs grew to $92.9 billion in assets in more than 31 million accounts at the end of June 2021, with account value increasing 26% year-over-year and number of accounts increasing 6%, a research group said.
In newly created role, Chandra will be responsible for leading digital innovation globally for the Clinic.
COVID-19 patients comprised 5% of HCA Healthcare admissions during the fourth quarter, which depressed earnings.
