The White House is launching a program to help surgeons remove cancerous tumors more accurately to improve patient outcomes. 

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora has created the state's first precision medicine institute to better integrate personalized care into patients' treatment. 

Anchorage-based Alaska Native Medical Center has submitted a corrective plan after federal regulators revoked the hospital's "deemed status," the Anchorage Daily News reported July 26.

The FDA, CDC and several states are investigating an outbreak of tuberculosis connected to recalled human bone tissue products that were sold to hospitals, surgical centers and dental clinics, the CDC said July 25.

People with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia end up in the emergency room about 1.4 million times every year, according to recent findings from researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

In May, Birmingham, Ala.-based UAB Hospital made history by delivering the first baby after a uterus transplant outside of a clinical trial. 

In the everyday chaos of a busy hospital, it can become easy to find work-around solutions that push standards to the side in favor of getting the job done faster. But at what cost? 

Earlier this year, a team of clinicians at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai successfully performed a triple organ transplant on a patient with a rare inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis. 

Researchers at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital found a technique that shows promise in restoring fertility to ovaries that have stopped working.

Tampa, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care Center is temporarily closed as the local fire department investigates the air quality after facing a potential explosion risk from 30, 100-pound lithium-ion batteries.

Patients who have had vascular surgeries are often readmitted to the hospital for a variety of reasons — often preventable — more often than patients who undergo different types of surgeries. These readmissions could be largely avoided if other aspects of the discharge process were improved, according to research led by the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients over the age of 18 and removed references to such care from its website, The Denver Post reported July 18. 

Physicians at Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital successfully completed a 17-hour surgical procedure to separate conjoined twin brothers, according to a July 17 news release.  

The lone pediatric hospital in San Diego County, Rady Children’s Hospital, has seen an increase of youth admissions due to cannabis poisoning, according to a July 16 report from the San Diego Union Tribune. But, according to a new report from the CDC, it may not be the only facility seeing an increase. 

In the first study to quantify the burden of misdiagnoses across all healthcare settings in the U.S., researchers estimate nearly 800,000 people become permanently disabled or die from a diagnostic error, according to a study published July 17 in BMJ. 

Deficiencies at California Medical Center in Los Angeles led to the death of a patient hours after she had a C-section in March, according to a newly released investigation from state regulators.

Cleveland-based MetroHealth is launching a three-year, $2.6 million initiative to improve care and support services for children with autism who are transitioning to adulthood.

Nine hospitals across Washington state have embarked on a focused effort to improve patient safety as part of a campaign led by Washington Hospital Services, according to a July 13 news release.

Since establishing its Comprehensive COVID-19 Center in May 2020, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has treated nearly 4,000 patients who have experienced lingering issues after a bout with the virus. Today, the center continues to see high demand for patient appointments. 

For a decade, California's number of emergency departments dwindled as the state grew in population, leading to longer ED wait times in a state of 39 million people, according to a UCSF study published in JAMA.