https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Most registered nurses who recently left hospital employment are motivated to return to health care work—and safe nurse staffing levels are the top factor that would bring them back, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR). Published in JAMA Network Open, the study analyzed data from 4,043 actively licensed registered nurses who left direct care hospital positions within the last five years. Among them, 8% were employed outside health care, 36% were unemployed, and 56% were retired. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-nurses-hospitals-reverse-nursing-workforce.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:09:31 EST news689879342 A new prospective cohort study by investigators from Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard analyzed 131,821 participants from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS), finding that moderate consumption of caffeinated coffee (two to three cups a day) or tea (one to two cups a day) reduced dementia risk, slowed cognitive decline, and preserved cognitive function. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-consuming-cups-coffee-daily-dementia.html Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:03 EST news689592541 Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don't know what you're doing—or even spit at you. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-nursing-shortage-worse-nurses-daily.html Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:40:02 EST news688912668 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 that quickly identifying these patients would help hospitals plan earlier for complex care and avert stressful situations where patients are medically ready to leave the hospital but have no safe place to go, say the study authors. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-ai-tool-patients-hospital.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:33:22 EST news688908781 More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers walked off the job Monday morning at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii, calling for safer staffing levels and better pay. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-thousands-kaiser-nurses-california-hawaii.html Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:00:01 EST news688830790 Last year was a tough one for farmers. Amid falling prices for commodity crops such as corn and soybeans, rising input costs for supplies like fertilizer and seeds, as well as the Trump tariffs and the dismantling of USAID, many farms weren't profitable last year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-farmers-owe-lot-health.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:30:01 EST news688642063 Nearly a third of registered nurses and advanced practice nurses in Michigan carry sizable student loan debt that is influencing their decision to leave the profession, according to a new study from the University of Michigan. The research appears in Health Affairs Scholar, and comes as the U.S. Department of Education prepares to finalize new student loan rules that exclude graduate nursing programs from higher-tier loan limits, a move the study authors say could narrow the pathway for advanced clinicians and nursing faculty. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-high-nursing-school-debt-loan.html Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:31:58 EST news688642159 Boosting staffing levels at nursing homes could improve the health of residents, a new study says. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-staff-health-nursing-home-residents.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:10:22 EST news688201797 With an estimated 5 million Americans battling opioid use disorder—resulting in tens of thousands of deaths each year—a new study by the University of Texas at Arlington examines how updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines can help nurse practitioners reduce misuse and protect patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-focuses-safer-opioid.html Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:03:43 EST news687614582 Some 15,000 nurses went on strike Monday in New York City at three large private hospital groups over pay and conditions. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-ny-nurses-stage-largest-conditions.html Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:01 EST news687444684 An international intervention co-led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) and the KU Leuven Institute of Healthcare Policy in Belgium shows that redesigning hospital work environments with the Magnet Model measurably improves nurse and physician well-being and strengthens patient safety. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-redesigning-hospital-environments-clinician-patient.html Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:06:02 EST news687024317 There is growing need for nurses in the United States—but not enough nurses currently working, or students training to become nurses, to promptly see all of the patients who need medical care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-federal-loan-limits-worsen-america.html Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:40:52 EST news687012002 On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dramatically reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccinations from 17 to 11, citing practices in other wealthy nations, including Denmark, Germany, and Japan. The CDC said that parents could choose to have their children receive some previously recommended vaccines, including those for flu, rotavirus, COVID-19, meningitis, and hepatitis A and B, after "shared clinical decision-making." https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-cdc-urges-decision-childhood-vaccines.html Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:19:37 EST news686924341 Nurses in critical care units who perceive higher levels of teamwork with their colleagues are more likely to take breaks during their shifts, according to new research from The Center for Health Design published in American Journal of Critical Care. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-nurses-teamwork-mitigates-burnout.html Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:58:29 EST news686566681 Before giving birth to her second child, Heidi DiLorenzo was anxious. She worried about her blood pressure and the preeclampsia that prompted her to be hospitalized twice during the pregnancy. She worried that some terrible, unnamed harm would come to her 3-year-old daughter. She worried about her ability to love another baby as much as she loved her first. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-fda-panelists-antidepressants-pregnancy-doctors.html Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:40:01 EST news685693427 To reduce mortality rates, fall and tumble rates, and delirium incidence among hospitalized patients, it is crucial for nurses to learn Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). To achieve this, developing effective EBP education programs is essential. However, traditional EBP education programs have faced challenges, such as not covering all aspects of the EBP process and lacking rigorous evaluation methods for these programs. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-problem-approach-health-delivery-nursing.html Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:45:15 EST news685640701 Lymphedema after head and neck cancer is considerably more common than previously assumed and can persist long after cancer treatment has finished. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that patients with a low level of physical activity face a higher risk of developing lymphedema. They have also noted that a lymph scanner objectively measures changes in the condition—a method that has now been introduced in Sweden's Southern Healthcare Region. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-lymphedema-neck-cancer.html Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:20:01 EST news685196963 Survivors of sexual assault in rural communities often struggle to access specialized care. New research from The University of Texas at Arlington helps explain why. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-sexual-assault-falls-short-rural.html Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:20:02 EST news685198620 Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-student-loan-dissuade-people-advanced.html Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:30:04 EST news685009661 The production of new nurses to help address national nursing shortages starts with the educational pipeline. However, substantial and persistent salary disparities exist between nursing faculty and nurses working in clinical and non-academic roles across the U.S., according to a new study published in Nurse Educator by Center for Health Workforce Studies researchers at the University at Albany's College of Integrated Health Sciences. The study utilized data from the 2022 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-significant-pay-gap-nurse-clinical.html Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:33:14 EST news684505982 Hospitals struggling to attract and retain enough registered nurses at the bedside are implementing alternative strategies to ensure patients get needed nursing care. This includes virtual nursing programs, a model of care in which nurses use video and messaging technologies to assess, monitor, educate, and coordinate care for hospitalized patients from an off-site location. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-virtual-nursing-fall-short-nurses.html Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:13:55 EST news684238370 Grief for families in the aged care system begins long before the death of their loved ones, new research has found, highlighting the need for a systemic rethink of how grief is understood and supported. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-grief-aged.html Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:34:28 EST news683890442 Long-term exposure to black carbon (BC) is associated with an increased risk for developing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study recently published in Environmental Research. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-term-exposure-black-carbon-linked.html Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:10:02 EST news683301018 Mindfulness-based interventions may reduce burnout among nurses and midwives and among a mixture of health care professionals (HCPs), but professional coaching appears to be most effective for reducing burnout among physicians, according to a review published online Nov. 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-interventions-burnout-health-professionals.html Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:39:00 EST news682951133 Life expectancy in New Zealand has increased dramatically over the past five decades. In 1970, men lived on average to 68. Today, it's over 80. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-people-longer-healthier-nurse-ageist.html Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:49:04 EST news682685341 When Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital began offering new mothers who gave birth there a follow-up visit with a nurse at home, Ebony Durant worried that the idea would be a hard sell for patients. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-home-moms-health-diapers-weeks.html Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:40:03 EST news682680541 An international study finds that hospitals with better nurse staffing and work environments not only benefit nurses but are significantly associated with less physician burnout and job dissatisfaction. The research, published in JAMA Network Open, provides a clear solution to the global crisis of physician burnout. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-investing-nurses-physician-burnout-international.html Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:56:02 EST news682617361 For many people with cancer and other serious diseases, palliative care is an important element of their journey. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-palliative-treatment-people-cancer-qa.html Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:50:02 EST news682584410 Echo Kopplin wants South Dakota's leaders to know that money from a new $50 billion federal rural health fund should help residents with limited transportation options. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-fairness-access-states-slice-50b.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:40:02 EST news681989723 Hip replacement surgery is one of Australia's most common orthopedic procedures, with demand rising as the population ages. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-ai-telehealth-hip-surgery-recovery.html Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:21:03 EST news681992461