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Yolanda Desir & Marie Deus

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic

ICU Delirium

Hospitals By Usha Lee McFarling

Hospitals struggle to address terrifying and long-lasting ‘ICU delirium’

Alternative Medicine

Special Report By Casey Ross, Max Blau, and Kate Sheridan

Medicine with a side of mysticism: Top hospitals promote unproven therapies

Stamford Hospital patient

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Giving blood thinners to severely ill Covid-19 patients is gaining ground

Patient Data and hospitals

Health Tech By Casey Ross

At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent

Brigham and Women's Covid

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

Photos: One day inside a Boston hospital’s response to Covid-19

Hospitals By Usha Lee McFarling

Why the United States is no longer turning up its nose at Caribbean medical schools

Heidi Schmidt

Hospitals By Melissa Bailey

After earning an MD, she’s headed back to school — to become a nurse

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smart phone med records

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Major health-record company drops opposition to federal data-sharing rule

Carolyn LaVita

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

For respiratory therapists, a shortage of a simple tube brings a new coronavirus risk

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Fred Banks

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus

Health By Mark Arsenault — Boston Globe

When every call is a coronavirus call

SF homeless encampment

Health By Allison Bond

As Covid-19 surges among San Francisco’s homeless, doctors face difficult choices

Man walking in Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood

Health By Elizabeth Cooney

Who gets hospitalized for Covid-19? Report shows differences by race and sex

Ziad Obermeyer_SMadness

Health Tech By Sharon Begley

Discovery of racial bias in health care AI wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’

ventilator workstation

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators

Brigham - Covid prep 3/25

On the Front Lines By Eric Boodman

With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out

Remote medical monitors illo

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Hospitals turn to remote monitoring tools to free up beds for the sickest coronavirus patients

WUHAN_COVID-19_DOCTOR

Health By Sharon Begley

Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China

telemedicine/headset & laptop

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin and Casey Ross

Surge in patients overwhelms telehealth services amid coronavirus pandemic

Lenox Hill Hospital, NY

Hospitals By Sharon Begley

Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks

Medical workers at Kaiser Permanente_San Fran

Hospitals By Meghana Keshavan

Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different pictures of their preparedness for the coronavirus

Google b&w

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

Google research suggests efforts to anonymize patient data aren’t foolproof

Balloon heart

Health By Eric Boodman

How the psychology of a $4.99 price tag might influence who undergoes heart surgery

Zachi Attai

Health Tech By Casey Ross

At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?

Infusion pump

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

More hospital drug spending is going toward cancer immunotherapies

Dr. John Halamka

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy

Human T cells showing nuclei

Business By Sharon Begley

Facing bottlenecks in manufacturing cell therapies, Boston leaders plan to build their own

Off the Charts

Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

When it comes to health care, nothing is nonpartisan. Melania Trump’s visit to a Boston hospital harms patients and providers

Federal Building DOJ

Politics By Lev Facher

Couple stole trade secrets from U.S. children’s hospital to market their Chinese biotech, prosecutors say

Woman, doctor by window

Hospitals By Jacquelyn Corley

It’s not just bosses who harass health workers: Hospitals start addressing patients’ ‘egregious’ behavior

Ambulance - night

Health By Jacquelyn Corley

In an emergency, where ambulances take patients differs by race, study finds

CT scan

Health Tech By Jacquelyn Corley

With brain trauma, surgeons don’t always know if an operation will help. Could AI change that?