These financial cutbacks, coming in response to sudden shortfalls during the coronavirus outbreak, have triggered an outcry from doctors and nurses who are already working grueling shifts in demanding working conditions. More
A decade after the agency gave the nod to Makena, to prevent premature births, it’s not clear the medicine works. More
Mayor confirms teenager’s death with heart-breaking statement: ‘The Friday before he died, he was healthy ... By Wednesday, he was dead’ More
Doctors sent an impassioned, desperate letter to Congress describing the lack of protective equipment across the country — from masks to respirators to gowns to goggles. More
New research shows that if Britain follows the same trajectory as China then 5,700 people, not 20,000, are expected to die – and the peak with be a week on Sunday. A new paper by Tom Pike, from Imperial College London, compares deaths for confirmed Covid-19 cases in China with eight other countries – all of which have implemented some form of social distancing measures. More
Social distancing appears to lower the growth of COVID-19 death rates, putting many countries on the same pattern as China, a new analysis shows. More
St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead said it will furlough a quarter of its staff this week, signaling that not even hospitals are immune to financial hardship amid Kentucky’s blooming COVID-19 outbreak. More
We are hostages of our lack of information, and that makes our government a bad investor. More
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action challenging UnitedHealthcare's refusal to cover a certain type of cancer treatment known as proton beam therapy. More
Families worry that overwhelmed hospitals won’t be able to provide palliative care for loved ones stricken with COVID-19. More
New study shows social distancing efforts in these eight countries seem to be effective. Declining rates of death are following the same path seen in Wuhan, China. More
Some worry the gag orders are muddying the picture of how hospitals are faring in the pandemic, while placing the safety of frontline workers at risk. More
Is hydroxychloroquine a "miracle cure" for COVID-19? Or just unwarranted hype? More
Two leading theories of the differences seen so far have to do with the ages of people who are getting infected, and the fact that the US health care system — for all its failings and inefficiencies — has more critical care beds for the seriously ill. But there is no room for complacency: If the number of new cases builds up too quickly, even US intensive care units will be unable to cope. If there are not enough critical care beds to handle the demand, said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute, a health care think tank in Brookline, Massachusetts, “the best critical care in the world is not going to move the needle.” More
Three senators on a revived subcommittee received more than $100,000 each from drugmakers. More
I’m an ER doctor, and we need to know what matters most to your family member. More
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered "fault lines" in the health care system that need to change. One of these major fault lines is fragmentation. More
The Lown Institute, a Brookline nonprofit, called over-prescribing of seniors an epidemic in a report last April. Over the last decade, those 65 and older have been hospitalized for serious drug side effects about 2 million times, the group said. “The bottom line is, they know how to prescribe … They don’t know how to de-prescribe,” said Shannon Brownlee, the Lown Institute’s senior vice president, addressing the issue of having a patient wean off a drug. More
This cross-sectional study assesses the magnitude of mental health consequences and associated factors among health care workers treating patients exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China. More
“Western health care systems have been built around the concept of patient-centered care,” but that doctors must now move to “community-centered care.” More