https://medicalxpress.com/hospital-medicine-news/ en-us Latest medical news and research in Hospital medicine At the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukraine was hit with a 40% surge in demand for blood for its civilians and military personnel. Despite damaged health care facilities, supply chain disruptions and population displacement, the country maintained a self-sufficient blood supply by centralizing operations and expanding donor recruitment, according to a new international study that included scientists from Northwestern University. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-ukraine-wartime-blood.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:20:05 EDT news706293541 A new nationwide study finds antiviral treatment is linked to fewer intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and shorter hospital stays for children hospitalized with influenza. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-largest-real-world-early-flu.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:20:08 EDT news705582301 A University of Colorado Anschutz-led clinical trial has found an automated oxygen delivery system helped hospitalized patients spend significantly more time in their target oxygen range compared with standard care, while also reducing exposure to both low and high oxygen levels. Patients in the automated group spent 85% of their time in the target oxygen range compared with 63% in the standard care group. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-clinical-trial-ai-oxygen-delivery.html Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:00:03 EDT news704965073 If it feels harder to keep the same doctor, you're not imagining it. Health care leaders say retirements, burnout and changing workforce expectations are making it complicated to keep experienced clinicians in place. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-doctors.html Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:40:03 EDT news704723581 Researchers from RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School found that an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled early warning system helped identify hospitalized patients at risk of rapid clinical decline sooner, contributing to fewer deaths among high-risk patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-ai-tool-patient-deterioration-earlier.html Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:00:01 EDT news704471341 Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators developed an AI-based model that can identify hospitalized patients at risk of low blood sugar up to 24 hours before the condition occurs. The long short-term memory (LSTM) model, described in npj Digital Medicine, could help clinicians intervene earlier and prevent complications, including, in severe cases, seizures, coma and long-term heart arrhythmias. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-hospital-ai-tool-blood-sugar.html Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:00:03 EDT news701691207 Two independent AI models that can assist with multiple stages of patient management, from diagnosis to treatment decisions, are presented in Nature this week. The systems—MIRA (Medical Intelligence for Reasoning and Action) and Google's AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer)—perform at least as well as physicians, demonstrating the potential for conversational AI tools to help with disease management. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-medical-ais-diagnosis-treatment-decisions.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:20:10 EDT news700999727 Remote monitoring isn't a panacea for reducing readmissions across all conditions—and for some patients, clinicians should proceed with caution, clinical trial results published in JAMA Network Open suggest. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-remote-readmissions-sepsis-trial.html Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:30:01 EDT news700302841 The hospital discharge summary—a document that outlines a patient's hospital stay for their outpatient providers—can take up a lot of doctors' time. It needs to comprehensively and succinctly summarize days, sometimes weeks, of medical details. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-ai-ease-burden-hospital-discharge.html Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:00:03 EDT news700242301