This type of urgent declaration has only been made twice since the charity was founded in 1881. The group said type O blood is at especially low inventories, as donations stand at a four-year low due to the excessive summer heat and ongoing cyclospora outbreak.

Burnout levels among Canada’s emergency physicians are as high now as they were at the height of the COVID pandemic, according to a study published July 27 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

To adapt a well-worn idiom, senior hospital leadership often risk missing a low-level storm stressing the whole forest for the sake of a few high-maintenance trees up front. 

A poll of parents shows a distressingly large portion of this demographic is at a loss when it comes to scheduling appointments, figuring out whether or not they need medical care and navigating the healthcare system. 

Hospital leaders who want to be ready for a mass casualty incident would do well to look for insights—and inspiration—from Samson Assuta Ashdod Medical Center.

Behnoosh Dashti, MD, lives and works as a family medicine physician in Maine. She crossed into Canada, where she is a citizen, only to renew a visa stamp necessary for her driver’s license.

The nonprofit Intermountain Health would take full ownership of Idaho Falls Community Hospital, and expand its minority share in physician-owned Mountain View Hospital, if the deal with Surgery Partners goes through.

The technology company claims the incident stemmed from a cybersecurity test gone wrong, where its application escaped a closed environment and broke into an external database to complete its task of being an elite hacker

A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General shows most of the money comes from a small number of huge cases, where the federal government was able to reclaim hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funds being abused by criminal defendants.

CMS officially began paying for street medicine services at the national level in 2023. This year finds the street-med model making much headway—and many headlines. 

More than 50,000 devices are being recalled due to pinhole leaks associated with multiple risks. Customers should return any unused cannulae to Medtronic.

According to the Wall Street Journal, providers scored $15B in payments last year through IDR, triple the figure for 2024, with CMS “actively working to clean it up."