A ‘duty to warn’: An ER doctor, shaped by war and hardship, chronicles the searing realities of Covid-19
As a Marine combat medic in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province, Cleavon Gilman saw bodies torn apart…
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Labeling confusion led to wasted doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in first days of rollout
With the Covid-19 vaccine in short supply, hospital pharmacists found themselves in the unexpected position…
Opinion: Emergency department physicians should have the right to due process protection. Many don’t
Your doctor should be your biggest advocate, doing what Ming Lin, an emergency medicine physician…
‘It’s peace of mind’: Covid-19 vaccines can’t arrive soon enough for many frontline health workers
Now that the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been cleared for emergency use, frontline health care…
STAT+: Hospital groups sue HHS for failing to stop drug makers from cutting medication discounts
A group of hospital associations filed a lawsuit accusing the Department of Health and Human…
Opinion: New data, dashboard provide information on Covid-19 hospital capacity
The surge in Covid-19 cases that began in early November has raised questions about how…
On the ground, the pledge to vaccinate 20 million against Covid-19 in December seems unrealistic
Hospitals across the United States are preparing for a Covid-19 vaccine distribution timeline that’s well…
Opinion: Replace the ‘cold steel’ of hospital-bed shackles with the warmth of compassion
“Why do they have that cold steel on my son’s ankle?” The father of Jacob…
STAT+: Covid-19 vaccines will arrive before the data sharing technology that could help track them
Scientists have produced Covid-19 vaccines in record time. But the digital connectivity needed to closely…
A ‘bad case of déjà vu’: New Jersey hospitals brace for Covid-19 surge, but hope this time will be different
The first round of treating Covid-19 patients in New Jersey was brutal. Victorine Long Njaka,…
Data show hospitalized Covid-19 patients are surviving at higher rates, but surge in cases could roll back gains
Patients hospitalized with Covid-19 are surviving at higher rates than in the early days of…
Opinion: A shortage of physicians with experience treating hospitalized patients could threaten the next surge response
As Covid-19 cases reach a record high in the U.S., models project that this third…
As a new Covid-19 treatment arrives, hospitals scramble to solve logistical and ethical challenges
When the federal government started handing out a newly authorized Covid-19 treatment last week, some…
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Delirium could signal Covid-19 infection in older adults, study finds
Delirium may be an early warning sign of Covid-19 infection in older adults, a new…
‘People are going to die’: Hospitals in half the states are facing a massive staffing shortage as Covid-19 surges
Hospitals in at least 25 states are critically short of nurses, doctors, and other staff…
Opinion: Medicine for the Greater Good: one hospital’s way of supporting its nearby communities of color
The violent police attacks on Jacob Blake, George Floyd, and far too many others, along…
As hospitals look to prevent infections, a chorus of researchers make a case for copper surfaces
Keeping patients from getting sick during an inpatient stay has long been a problem for…
STAT Plus: Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over patient data sharing by Google and the University of Chicago
A federal judge in Illinois this month dismissed a high-profile lawsuit against Google and the…
How common is burnout among physicians? It depends on how it’s defined
There’s a vast body of research showing that physicians and other health care professionals experience…
STAT Plus: Drug and device makers paid teaching hospitals $832 million in 2018, creating potential for conflicts of interest
Amid ongoing concern that drug and device makers may influence medical practice and research, a…
Telehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are dropping, forcing providers to recalibrate
A nationwide dropoff in telemedicine visits is forcing providers who raced to ramp up virtual…
Opinion: Hospital CEOs, med school leaders shouldn’t sit on for-profit health care company boards
In late July, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, came under…
Opinion: Infections acquired in health facilities are a big problem. National reporting can help fix it
Contagious diseases are as old as time and routinely appear in health care settings. New…
STAT Plus: Drug makers seek to curtail discounts paid to hospitals as part of a controversial federal program
A growing number of drug makers are taking steps to curtail the discounts they offer…
Opinion: ICU capacity is more about the clinicians than the number of beds
Each time communities experience surges of Covid-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and…
Nearly half of low-income communities have no ICU beds in their area
As Covid-19 continues to strain the country’s hospital system, new research exposes a striking gap…
STAT Plus: Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has a problem familiar to many hospitals: Too many patients…
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care
Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota’s…
How should hospitals respond to bias from patients? Experts offer a playbook
All too often, health care workers are the target of biased or bigoted behavior from…
Opinion: In the NICU, both parents are essential and need to be at their child’s bedside
As Covid-19 surged through the United States this spring, Reina and James were told they…
From Houston to Miami, hospitals running short of remdesivir for Covid-19 patients
With Covid-19 patients filling her Houston hospital, pharmacist Katherine Perez wishes she had enough remdesivir…
In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well
You won’t find the usual suspects like Massachusetts General Hospital or the Mayo Clinic at…
Opinion: Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center
For years, hospitals penny-pinching on infection control has been an open secret. Whether Covid-19 will…
An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations
The daily email that arrived in physician Samantha Wang’s inbox at 8 a.m., just before…
Opinion: To make progress against Covid-19, processes must serve people, not a ‘labyrinth of bureaucratic rules’
By sheer necessity, the Covid-19 pandemic has united health care systems around the common purpose…
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The hospital’s…
Ignoring cancer care now may trade one public health crisis — Covid-19 — for another, NCI chief warns
Ned Sharpless is worried. The director of the National Cancer Institute believes the Covid-19 pandemic…
‘We have a job to do’: Cancer patients and their doctors carry on with clinical trials during Covid-19
Cancer isn’t waiting for Covid-19 to go away. Neither is Karen Howley. Diagnosed two years…
‘An obligation’: Doctors and other health workers increasingly see protesting racial injustice as part of the job
Amid the dual crises of a global pandemic and a reckoning with systemic racial injustice,…
STAT Plus: Telehealth is a ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic, but implementing it permanently won’t be easy
The coronavirus pandemic has stretched hospital resources beyond their capacity, disrupted the delivery of care,…
Opinion: Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support black lives
Oleoresin capsicum spray, better known as pepper spray, is a chemical weapon made from concentrated…
At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The patients of Mayo Clinic, whether they know it or not, have…
Opinion: Resident physicians should have a say in their working conditions
In Chicago’s South Loop, the nightly salutation to health care workers begins at 8 p.m.,…
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Opinion: Hospitals are busier than ever — and going out of business
At various points over the last few weeks, news reports have told stories of booming…
Opinion: We’re psychiatry residents. We will take good care of you if you get Covid-19
As the number of Americans with Covid-19 rapidly rises, doctors are among them, having no…
STAT Plus: Trump administration proposes a dramatic payment boost for CAR-T treatments under Medicare
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a major payment bump for…
Opinion: Three traps for the unwary in HHS’ provider relief fund
In its rush to offer a lifeline to U.S. health care providers struggling under the…
7 questions about Covid-19 testing and what it means for reopening the country
Pressure to perform widespread Covid-19 testing is growing as public health experts and ordinary citizens…
Photos: A peek inside one Boston hospital’s response to Covid-19
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. When he…
Doctors lambaste federal process for distributing Covid-19 drug remdesivir
Hospitals and physicians around the country are sharply criticizing the federal government for the uneven…