As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common in health care, from managing records to assisting with medication decisions, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai are asking an important question: ...
Mar 11, 2026
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A University of Queensland study has found that almost 90% of people killed and injured by landmines and similar weapons are civilians. Dr. Stacey Pizzino from UQ's School of Public Health, together with her research team, ...
Feb 25, 2026
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There's an unsung success story about the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. At its outset, U.S. hospitals faced huge challenges, as influxes of patients strained resources, while doctors were uncertain about what treatments ...
Feb 17, 2026
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A long-standing Medicare policy meant to manage rehabilitation services in nursing homes may keep older Americans in hospitals longer than necessary without improving patient health or saving Medicare money, new research ...
Feb 9, 2026
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An artificial intelligence (AI) tool accurately predicted which patients would need a skilled nursing facility after leaving the hospital, a new study shows. Led by researchers from NYU Langone Health, the study suggests ...
Jan 29, 2026
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For more than a decade, hospitals have worked to help older adults avoid repeated inpatient stays, incentivized by a federal program that cuts Medicare reimbursements if hospitals have higher-than-expected rates of readmissions ...
Jan 22, 2026
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When Arinze Nkemdirim Okere, PharmD, MBA, worked as the pharmacist for a hospital in Tallahassee, Florida, he noticed that discharged patients would regularly return, often for issues that could have been easily treated.
Jan 21, 2026
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Every day, across the nation, patients wait hours or days in emergency departments until a bed opens up for them in the hospital.
Dec 5, 2025
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A new national analysis shows that over the past two decades, inpatient care for children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) has become far more intensive—and is now overwhelmingly concentrated in urban teaching children's ...
Dec 2, 2025
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A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals.
Nov 25, 2025
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