CMS has issued its final rule aimed at stabilizing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance exchanges, checking many items off insurers’ wish lists while leaving the most pressing issue—whether cost-sharing reduction subsidies will be funded—unsettled as insurers decided whether to participate in the individual market next year.

With a limited supply of readily available transplantable organs, researchers are looking for innovative alternatives for organ transplants—and 3D printing could be an answer.

Running a marathon takes weeks of preparation of the mind and body—and researchers are investigating a similar approach, if less intense, to patients before surgery. A study, published by Surgery, found that basic wellness and fitness coaching can cut costs and the patient's length of stay.

Reaching a patient quickly in response to a bedside alarm could be the difference between life and death. A study in JAMA Pediatrics examines the varied response times of nurses to patient bedside alarms based on differing factors.

A new report from Irving Levin Associates and HealthCareMandA.com said mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity “surged” among physician medical groups in the first quarter of the year, with 48 deals confirmed.

Only 10 hospitals were given failing grades in the spring 2017 edition of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade report, though “C” grades remained the most common and four states had no hospitals earning top marks. 

Eight months after its previous chief nursing officer stepped down, Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has named a replacement: Madelyn Pearson, MSN, MA, RN, who will take on the titles of CNO and senior vice president of patient care services on June 12.

LUNGevity Foundation, the nation's preeminent lung cancer research foundation, today announced that Alice T. Shaw, MD, PhD, has joined LUNGevity's Scientific Advisory Board, a group of 20 world-renowned scientists and researchers that guides LUNGevity's research program.