Someone somewhere introduced the theory that a COVID-19 vaccine will alter the DNA of anyone unwise enough to receive it. Did that person know this to be a crock and put it out there just for the fun of it?

California is the state with the most nursing homes to rate as high-performing with five stars in U.S. News & World Report’s latest listing of the best such facilities in the country.

If everything goes according to its authors’ vision, healthcare consumers will finally be using their smartphones to easily access all their medical information.

The three states of Southern New England will be looking for a threepeat of sorts this year, as they placed first, second and third for the 2019-20 season.  

Physicians who lived in three of the most populous states and were eligible to vote from 2006 to 2018 did so at a rate 14 percentage points lower than the population as a whole.

Leaders of some large hospital systems are lately showing they’ve learned how to cope with wildly fluctuating strains on resources while keeping their doors open for profitable service lines.

U.S. physicians favor the idea of a two-tiered healthcare system, one in which a single-payer option peacefully coexists with private coverage. Their least favorite model? Single-payer Medicare for All.

The cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security is urging hospitals and other healthcare providers to brace for ransomware attacks during the present surge of COVID-19 cases.

A little more than a year after inking a 10-year pact on digital healthcare development, Mayo Clinic and Google Health have launched their first major research project together. Interestingly, it directly involves AI.

A history of heart failure was also associated with longer lengths of stay and an increased risk of mechanical ventilation.

This trend warrants attention from practice leaders and policymakers alike, experts reported in JACR.