A police officer shot and injured an armed man at Elizabethtown, Ky.-based Baptist Health Hardin hospital on Oct. 19, Fox affiliate WDRB reported.

Hurricane Helene-related IV supply shortages have left parenteral nutrition-dependent patients in limbo, according to an Oct. 18 report from KFF Health News.

The FDA has approved the Minima stent system, the first device specifically designed for infants and young children with congenital heart defects. The innovative stent could help thousands of children avoid multiple open-heart surgeries as they grow up. 

Starting Nov. 1, Texas hospitals will have to ask patients about their citizenship status, The Texas Tribune reported Oct. 17. 

Since elevating safety to its No. 1 priority, Springfield (Ill.) Memorial Hospital has launched several projects to protect its staff and patients. 

The American Hospital Association released its last Hospitals Against Violence Advisory Group guidelines. The guidelines focus on community-based violence interventions.

A team at Cincinnati Children's hospital performed a lung-then-heart transplant on a 15-year-old patient with Castleman disease. The organs were transported and transplanted separately. 

A study found children were 50% more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes six months after having a COVID-19 infection, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 14.

The American Physiological Society and online library Wiley will relaunch the journal Comprehensive Physiology with a new focus on interorgan communication.

A new postpartum, at-home blood pressure monitoring program at M Health Fairview reduced postpartum readmissions due to hypertension by 69%.

Three nurses at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center were seriously injured Oct. 11 after being struck by the driver of a vehicle who dropped off a gunshot victim outside the hospital's emergency department. 

Over 14 years, there was a 76% increase in emergency department visits related to hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, an Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan study found. 

A physician at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital successfully performed the first ovarian transplant procedure in New England, for a patient whose ovary was removed and preserved 18 years earlier. 

Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health is set to open its first adult sickle cell clinic Oct. 9 in the city. 

ChatGPT is more likely to overprescribe medications and imaging and is less effective than a resident in emergency department care, a University of California San Francisco study found.

Three crew members died after a medical helicopter crashed in Kentucky, ABC affiliate WLKY reported Oct. 7.

Approximately 80% of emergency departments were found to be underprepared for treating pediatric patients, according to a study published Oct. 7 in Health Affairs.

Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health has opened the Renown Transplant Institute, Northern Nevada's first kidney transplant program.

The National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety officially launched in September 2024, representing a major step in the federal government's renewed commitment to improving patient safety and workforce well-being industrywide.

Among 9,147 hospitalized patients who received general medical care, an estimated 653 experienced a harmful diagnostic error, according to research published in BMJ.