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Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 hour ago

How Cognitive and Social Forces Shape Medical Decisions

Medical decisions are influenced by how options are framed, presented, and the dynamics of the situation.
fromJezebel
5 hours ago

ICE Is Ignoring Woman's Life-Threatening Ovarian Cyst-and Her Condition Is Getting Worse

For over a month, my office has been going back and forth with ICE officials about Andrea's condition. We have been ignored, put off, and frankly, lied to about the treatment she has received while in detention.
US politics
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
2 days ago

Inside The DOJ's Hospital Contracting Crackdown: What Message Are the Feds Sending? - MedCity News

The Department of Justice is suing OhioHealth and NewYork-Presbyterian for anticompetitive contracting practices that limit patient access to affordable care.
#healthcare
fromIndependent
3 weeks ago
Healthcare

Companies with doctors as directors awarded thousands of euro to treat waiting-list patients without going to tender, HSE audit finds

Canada news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 hours ago

Canada faces calls to rescind planned cuts to refugee healthcare scheme

Co-payments for the Interim Federal Health Program are seen as a denial of care for vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers in Canada.
Healthcare
fromCbsnews
2 days ago

Fighting for health care claim approvals

Insurance companies often delay or deny necessary medical treatments, causing significant emotional and physical distress for patients.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
6 days ago

'Month of worry' over doctor strike surgery delay

Strike action by resident doctors delays gastric bypass surgery for a patient, causing significant personal distress and health concerns.
Healthcare
fromForbes
2 weeks ago

How Independent Medical Practices Can Scale Through Systems Thinking

Independent medical practices struggle to grow due to structural challenges, not clinical outcomes, in a healthcare economy favoring larger organizations.
fromIndependent
3 weeks ago
Healthcare

Companies with doctors as directors awarded thousands of euro to treat waiting-list patients without going to tender, HSE audit finds

Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

When Trauma Awareness Stops at the Hospital Door

Chronic health conditions significantly impact psychological well-being, yet healthcare providers often neglect this aspect for both patients and themselves.
#nhs
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Patients asked not to visit A&E during strike days

Resident doctors in Gloucestershire are on a six-day strike, affecting A&E services and leading to appointment cancellations.
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Critical incident declared at hospitals by trust

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Trust declared a critical incident due to rising winter virus demand and urged use of pharmacists or NHS 111.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Both doctors and the government are handling this strike badly that's why there is no end in sight | Polly Toynbee

Resident doctors in England are striking again, seeking a pay restoration to 2008 levels, despite previous negotiations and significant pay increases.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
1 day ago

Doctors' strikes can have surprising benefits - but are they sustainable?

Strikes by doctors in England led to more efficient NHS operations, with shorter patient waits and faster decisions despite fewer staff available.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
6 days ago

Hospitals coping well with doctors' strike so far - NHS boss

The NHS is managing the doctors' strike well, but it has led to some cancellations of pre-planned operations.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Patients asked not to visit A&E during strike days

Resident doctors in Gloucestershire are on a six-day strike, affecting A&E services and leading to appointment cancellations.
fromThe Nation
3 days ago

The Labyrinth of Nigerian Healthcare

My mother tells me not to be afraid, that 'what [you] fear will come upon [you].' She is quoting from the book of Job, the Bible's most famous theodicy.
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
2 days ago

'Doctors strikes' and 'paw prints in space'

The Forest of Dean could soon get its first drive through KFC, but Gloucestershire Live reported some residents were concerned it could "blight the area's beauty".
UK news
#mental-health
Social justice
fromSan Jose Spotlight
3 days ago

San Jose faces legal heat over mental health crisis calls - San Jose Spotlight

Civil rights organizations are pressuring San Jose to improve mental health emergency response by diverting calls from police to crisis teams.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
5 days ago

These hospitals caved to Trump & cut trans health care. Now a court is making them bring it back. - LGBTQ Nation

Children's hospitals in Minnesota are reinstating gender-affirming care for youth after a temporary pause due to federal funding threats.
Non-profit organizations
from24/7 Wall St.
5 days ago

Why Nurses at Non-Profit Hospitals Are Maxing Two Retirement Accounts While Most Workers Can Only Max One

Nurses at non-profit hospitals can contribute to both a 403(b) and a 457(b), maximizing their retirement savings compared to for-profit hospital employees.
London politics
fromIrish Independent
5 days ago

Patients missing cancer treatments and 'serious concern' ambulances may not have access to fuel as forecourts begin to run out amid queues

Blockades threaten food and clean water supply, prompting government action to clear protests and ensure access to fuel terminals.
Healthcare
fromArs Technica
6 hours ago

Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

Health systems are introducing branded AI chatbots to provide health advice, raising questions about safety, monitoring, and effectiveness.
London startup
fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 days ago

I'm an NHS consultant international partnerships are crucial as aid cuts bite

The Independent provides critical journalism on key issues without paywalls, relying on donations to support its reporting efforts.
Public health
fromAdvocate.com
4 days ago

Former Biden HHS leaders hail syphilis breakthrough as Trump dismantles the system behind it

DoxyPEP significantly reduces syphilis infections, demonstrating success in public health initiatives during the Biden administration.
fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

How Community-Based Healthcare Builds Engagement

Most people leave doctor visits with prescriptions, but still feel unsure—instructions make sense, but no one asks about their life. In contrast, when a provider knows your name, remembers your story, and explains care in a way that fits you, the experience feels different—and that difference matters.
Healthcare
Healthcare
fromwww.amny.com
1 day ago

Op-ed | To tackle affordability, we must have fair hospital pricing | amNewYork

Two out of three New Yorkers delayed healthcare due to costs, with hospital price inflation exceeding 100% since 2009.
fromSlate Magazine
2 weeks ago

The Baby's Heart Stopped. One Phrase Has Stuck With Me for Years Since.

There is a piece of advice given to doctors in moments like this: Check your own pulse. Each person in the room has a role, and we perform it best with steady hands and measured voices.
Medicine
#physician-compensation
Healthcare
fromMedscape
5 days ago

Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2026: Positive Signs

Doctors in the US experienced a 3% average pay increase in 2025, with eight specialties earning over $500,000 in total compensation.
Healthcare
fromMedscape
6 days ago

Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2026: Positive Signs

Physician compensation in the US rose by approximately 3% in 2025, with several specialties averaging over $500,000 in total earnings.
Healthcare
fromMedscape
5 days ago

Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2026: Positive Signs

Doctors in the US experienced a 3% average pay increase in 2025, with eight specialties earning over $500,000 in total compensation.
Healthcare
fromMedscape
6 days ago

Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2026: Positive Signs

Physician compensation in the US rose by approximately 3% in 2025, with several specialties averaging over $500,000 in total earnings.
#ai-in-healthcare
Healthcare
fromFuturism
3 days ago

AI Is Causing Healthcare Costs to Surge

AI tools in healthcare have led to increased costs rather than savings, contradicting earlier predictions.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Paper
1 month ago

Op-Ed | The Brooklyn Hospital Center is abandoning nurses and patients * Brooklyn Paper

Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center have lost health coverage for 40 days after management refused to contribute to health funds despite a signed contract, while executive leadership remains unaffected.
Healthcare
fromFuturism
6 days ago

Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims

Parents of Conor Hylton are suing a Connecticut hospital after their son died in a telehealth ICU without on-site critical care doctors.
Healthcare
fromSecurityWeek
6 days ago

Massachusetts Hospital Diverts Ambulances as Cyberattack Causes Disruption

Signature Healthcare in Brockton diverted ambulances due to a cyberattack, impacting services but not surgeries or procedures.
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Patients face long journeys for medicines as pharmacies cut weekend hours

One in six English pharmacies have reduced weekend hours since 2022, causing over 20% loss of weekend opening hours and forcing patients to travel long distances or seek emergency care.
Healthcare
fromSecuritymagazine
1 week ago

Healthcare Executives Face a New Era of Personal Risk

Healthcare executives face heightened personal risks due to grievance-motivated cyber threats amid economic pressures and public accountability.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
1 week ago

Why 131 Hospitals Are Suing HHS Over Alleged Underpayment - MedCity News

131 hospitals are suing HHS over CMS payment reductions for facilities treating low-income Medicare patients.
Healthcare
fromwww.npr.org
6 days ago

Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap?

Shawn Brown's urgent care clinic in Marquette now provides medication abortions after the local Planned Parenthood closed, leaving a significant access gap.
Healthcare
fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

How "Casino Shifts" Help ER Doctors Work into the Night and Save Lives | The Walrus

Emergency room physicians often arrive early to manage patient overload, facing challenges like fatigue and circadian rhythm disruption.
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 week ago

Office space for emergency care: East-end Toronto hospital says patient demand is more than double capacity | CBC News

The emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital was built to care for about 150 patients a day, but now sees more than 300 patients daily, amounting to about 107,000 patients last year in a space designed for 50,000 annually.
Healthcare
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It's mostly industry using the data

The idea echoes a policy implemented during his first term, when Trump suggested that requiring hospitals to post their charges online could ease one of the most common gripes about the health care system the lack of upfront prices. To anyone who's gotten a bill three months after treatment only to find mysterious charges, the idea seemed intuitive. "You're able to go online and compare all of the hospitals and the doctors and the prices,"
US news
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Hospital disruption continues after fire

A fire in the endoscopy unit at Southampton General Hospital forced evacuation of over 200 patients, cancellation of planned operations, and diversion of emergency cases.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

Ontario hospitals making 'lower risk' cuts to save money: association | CBC News

Ontario hospitals face a $1 billion structural deficit and require predictable multi-year funding; working capital and low-risk cuts will not resolve severe financial pressure.
fromFlowingData
2 weeks ago

Why rural hospitals close

Nearly 90% of the land in the United States is rural and about one in five people, or some 60 million, live throughout it according to the U.S. Census.
Healthcare
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Hospital staff want ICE out of hospitals: It is a threat to public health'

Immigration agents have increasingly entered hospitals, obstructing medical care and deterring patients after the Trump administration ended protections for sensitive locations.
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
2 months ago

Healthcare Cybersecurity Is in Crisis - These Proven Controls Could Be the Cure

Healthcare cybersecurity crisis: breaches doubled in 2025, average losses exceeded $2M; prioritize anti-fraud training, regulatory compliance, and targeted investments to reduce material risk.
Mental health
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

What Capitol City Residential Health Care Learned from Preventable Crises

Prevention-first, operations-focused residential care stabilizes high-acuity individuals by detecting missed signals, using consistent staffing, frequent plan reviews, and measured, person-centred adjustments.
Medicine
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

RCEM urges action as long hospital stays reach worst levels this winter - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Record high long hospital stays, rising staff absences, and ambulance handover delays require long-term, system-wide government action and support for emergency staff.
Information security
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It

Triage failures occur when decisions are made without execution evidence, causing false positives, missed threats, and higher costs; interactive sandboxes enable evidence-backed verdicts within seconds.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Health Care Empathy Dilemma

Different empathy types affect caregivers differently: compassion empathy protects against burnout while contagion empathy increases burnout risk by merging others' emotions.
fromTODAY.com
2 months ago

Labor and Delivery Nurse Reveals the No. 1 Hospital Question That Could Save Your Life

"If you or someone you love is going to give birth in a hospital, there is a question you need to ask before you go that can determine whether you are likely to have safe care or not," said labor and delivery nurse Jen Hamilton. Her multi-part TikTok videos amassed a combined 300,000 views their first 24 hours. "You need to know whether the hospital you are going to give birth in follows AWHONN's safe staffing standards," she continued.
Public health
Healthcare
fromFast Company
3 weeks ago

How companies and nonprofits are tackling the U.S. healthcare crisis-until there's a federal policy solution

The U.S. healthcare crisis involves rising costs, coverage gaps, and medical debt, requiring radical policy change to improve the situation.
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

The hospitals where waiting times are getting worse. Is yours one of them?

Nearly a quarter of hospitals in England have seen waiting times worsen since the government published its plan to tackle the backlog a year ago, BBC analysis shows. Hitting the 18-week waiting target for treatments such as knee and hip operations was Labour's key manifesto pledge for the health service, and last January it set out how it would get hospitals on track.
Public health
fromBoston.com
4 weeks ago

Massachusetts ER doctors say long wait times reflect a health system under strain

For Massachusetts emergency physicians, that dream captures a simple truth: long ER waits rarely steam from care inside the department. Instead, doctors say they're the result of bottlenecks across a system stretched thin by staffing shortages, aging patients, limited hospital beds, and gaps in primary care.
Healthcare
Public health
fromKqed
2 months ago

'Delay' and 'Deny': Even Health Insurance Companies Agree Prior Authorization Process Is Broken | KQED

Prior authorization often delays or denies medically ordered care; a high-profile assassination of an insurer executive helped trigger bipartisan state laws limiting prior authorization.
Healthcare
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Building Better Systems: A Conversation with Healthcare Leader Daniel Tuffy

Daniel Tuffy is a healthcare leader who progressed from clinical physical therapy to executive roles, focusing on operational excellence, workforce engagement, and reducing provider burnout through trust-based leadership.
#hospital-closure
Healthcare
fromGothamist
1 month ago

Jersey City hospital closes despite fierce local opposition

Jersey City's emergency room capacity drops to one facility serving 300,000 residents after Heights University Hospital closes due to financial losses exceeding $74 million annually.
Healthcare
fromGothamist
1 month ago

Jersey City is losing 1 of its 2 emergency rooms. Where will patients in crisis go?

Jersey City's Heights University Hospital will close its emergency room on March 14, reducing the city's emergency care capacity and forcing residents to travel farther for urgent medical services.
Healthcare
fromGothamist
1 month ago

Jersey City hospital closes despite fierce local opposition

Jersey City's emergency room capacity drops to one facility serving 300,000 residents after Heights University Hospital closes due to financial losses exceeding $74 million annually.
Healthcare
fromGothamist
1 month ago

Jersey City is losing 1 of its 2 emergency rooms. Where will patients in crisis go?

Jersey City's Heights University Hospital will close its emergency room on March 14, reducing the city's emergency care capacity and forcing residents to travel farther for urgent medical services.
#emergency-departments
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

'Failure to prepare' for winter has left A&E patients out at sea - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Today's data, from NHSE's latest weekly winter situation report, covers the week ending 25 January. It showed that bed occupancy in English hospitals remains dangerously high, at 94.6%, while more than 14,000 people medically fit to be discharged from hospital were still stuck in beds. On a given day, there were on average 50,368 patients who had been in a hospital bed for seven days or longer, showing problems lie at the 'back door' of hospitals.
Public health
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

As LA maternity wards close, patients are giving birth in ERs: There's no system to care for these women'

Hospital maternity ward closures in Los Angeles are increasing emergency-room labor and delivery visits, straining remaining public hospitals and forcing longer travel for pregnant patients.
Healthcare
fromFortune
1 month ago

Healthcare has been propping up a shaky labor market. For the first time in over four years, the sector shed thousands of jobs | Fortune

Healthcare lost 28,000 jobs in February, marking its first decline in four years and exposing the labor market's dangerous dependence on a single sector for growth.
Public health
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

A drop in CDC health alerts leaves doctors 'flying blind'

The CDC issued only six Health Alert Network alerts in 2025, sharply reducing early-warning communications and leaving clinicians and health departments less prepared.
Public health
fromCbsnews
2 months ago

Patients are being hit with this surprise fee just for seeing their doc. Here's what to know.

Hospital-owned outpatient clinics often add surprise facility fees that increase patients' costs and can deter people from seeking routine care.
Public health
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Hundreds of America's rural hospitals have disappeared. Maps show closures by state.

Over 100 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and Medicaid policy changes threaten to accelerate closures, reducing access to emergency, maternity, and inpatient care.
Healthcare
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month ago

Electronic health records are still creating issues for patients | Computer Weekly

All NHS trusts in England must implement electronic patient record systems by March 2026, though rollouts have faced integration challenges, staff training issues, and reports of patient harm.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

BBC investigation finds 50,000 people waited over 24 hours in A&E corridor care

Over 52,000 patients in north-west England waited longer than 24 hours for hospital admission in 2025, with corridor care becoming a widespread crisis affecting nearly one in five admitted patients.
Healthcare
fromGothamist
1 month ago

ER at troubled hospital in Jersey City's Heights gets a lifeline, for two weeks

Heights University Hospital's emergency department will remain open through March 14 after initially planning to close, but city and state officials say this two-week extension is insufficient for the Heights neighborhood.
Healthcare
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

2 charts show why booking a doctor's appointment is such a headache

US hospitals face severe shortages of nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals, causing longer patient waits and unfilled primary-care positions, especially in rural areas.
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Massachusetts emergency room wait times rank among the longest in the U.S.

If you find yourself in need of emergency care in Massachusetts, it could take a while. The Bay State ranks No. 3 in the U.S. for longest average time patients spend in the emergency department, according to World Population Review. Patients here spend an average of 189 minutes - more than three hours - in the ER before leaving the hospital. Only Maryland (228 minutes) and Delaware (195 minutes) report longer average delays.
Healthcare
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'Every hospital corridor I saw had people in beds'

"They were amazing... everybody was so professional and they really did put me at ease."
Healthcare
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