The FDA has given Elon Musk's Neuralink the green light to implant its brain chip into a second person, The Wall Street Journal reported May 20.

The shedding of service lines at Mount Sinai's Beth Israel Hospital is hurting the quality of patient care, The New York Times reported May 16. 

A bankrupt hospital that remains open is — in some ways — just as worrisome for patients as if it closed. 

In 2023, patient falls were once again the most common sentinel event reported by healthcare organizations, according to a May 15 report from The Joint Commission.

Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, N.Y., unveiled its two-bed, $2 million epilepsy monitoring unit May 15, according to a news release shared with Becker's. 

Many states require a court order to determine involuntary treatment, but independent committees could be a better way of meeting patients' needs, Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, a cardiologist in New York City-based Northwell Health wrote in an opinion piece published in The New York Times May 13.

Richard Slayman, the first person in the world to receive a genetically-edited pig kidney transplant, has died. He underwent the transplant procedure March 16 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 

Surveyors with the New York State Department of Health issued an immediate jeopardy notice regarding the open-heart surgery program at Wynn Hospital in Utica, N.Y., hours before the hospital announced it was pausing the procedures on May 8. 

In January, Neuralink implanted its brain-computer device into a human for the first time. In the weeks following the surgery, a number of threads on the implant retracted from the patient's brain, the company said May 8. 

A study led by researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School found newly trained physicians with high board certification exam scores led to lower risk of patient deaths and hospital readmissions.

While preventable harm in hospital settings has been a widely discussed issue for decades, new research suggests that adverse events are relatively common in outpatient settings, marking a critical opportunity to improve safety. 

University of Pittsburgh researchers may have found a way to repurpose a cancer drug to treat diabetes.

Farming began as a hobby for KimberLee Mudge, MD, a breast surgeon at UPMC Memorial in York, Pa., and it has now turned into an initiative designed to improve the health of people throughout Central Pennsylvania.

Seizures are telltale signs of epilepsy, but a subtle type of seizure in children is less likely to be noticed by emergency department physicians, which may lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, according to new research. 

University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington saw an 814% increase in blood infections, and the increase coincides with the arrival of xylazine as an illicit drug, according to a CDC report. 

A patient fired a gun at an employee at Detroit-based DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital before turning the gun on himself, Fox2 reported April 28.

Surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant surgery and implanted the second gene-edited pig kidney in the world.

Chicago-based Humboldt Park Health is the first hospital in the Midwest and 13th in the country to receive the Healthcare Equity Certification from The Joint Commission.

Patients treated by female physicians have lower mortality and readmission rates, a recent study found.

On April 17, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices added more recommendations to its list of medical abbreviations that should never be used.