Lexington, Ky.-based UK HealthCare recently hired more than 300 registered nurses as part of the University of Kentucky's implementation of a new graduate recruitment program. 

Hospitals are faring better on key quality and safety measures than they were before the pandemic, according to a new report from The American Hospital Association and Vizient. 

Physicians' awareness of a unique condition involving the inability to burp has grown largely due to patients' discussions on Reddit, according to KFF Health News.

Two hundred and sixty-three hospitals in the U.S. have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS.

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper training or experience.

Cleveland Clinic clinicians recently performed a brain surgery through a patient's eyelid, the health system said Sept. 11. 

Fifty percent of women say they have skipped or delayed medical care, undercutting a longstanding myth that men are more likely to put off routine healthcare, according to a new report from Deloitte. 

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York City recently performed the first fully robotic lung transplant in the U.S. 

Oropouche virus cases in the Americas have reached 10,000 for 2024, with 8,000 reported in Brazil, according to a Sept. 9 article on the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy's website.

MarinHealth Medical Center is pioneering the use of an AI-powered tool to detect the exact location of an aneurysm, CBS News reported Sept. 9. 

The main drivers of diagnostic errors in 2023 were issues with processing medical tests, referrals and communication, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute. 

Fifteen months after undergoing the world's first whole-eye and partial face transplant at NYU Langone Health, a 46-year-old Arkansas resident has achieved recovery with no episodes of tissue rejection. 

The goal of any hospitalization is to resolve the issue that brought the patient to our doorstep in the first place. Focus is the watchword. Whether it's routine care or quality improvement work, most of our efforts pinpoint the single diagnosis for which the patient was admitted to the hospital. 

As more countries report mpox infections, the United States is preparing for an mpox strain more severe than the version that recently circulated the world, NBC News reported Sept. 6. 

Physician assistants might be granted interstate practice by spring 2026.

Body Mass Index has been a widely used health metric for nearly 200 years, but now, researchers are exploring a new alternative that could provide more accurate health information and account for race and gender — body roundness index, The New York Times reported Sept. 6. 

As mental and behavioral health issues soared among pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic, potential complications associated with their pregnancies increased 19.8%, according to a FAIR Health report released Sept. 9. 

The CDC has confirmed the nation's first case of bird flu in a person who had no known occupational exposure to infected animals, the agency said Sept. 6. 

The American Public Health Association will honor 13 public health leaders on Oct. 28 at its annual meeting.

Emily Barey, RN, has served as Epic System's "chief nurse evangelist" for 23 years.