hospitals

Medical protection

Health

How should hospitals respond to bias from patients? Experts offer a playbook

By Alexander Spinelli

Canvasser NICU

First Opinion

In the NICU, both parents are essential and need to be at their child’s bedside

By Jennifer Canvasser, Kurlen Payton, and Elizabeth Rogers

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Remdesivir vial in bag

Health

From Houston to Miami, hospitals running short of remdesivir for Covid-19 patients

By Eric Boodman

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hospital curtain

Hospitals

In a new hospital ranking, doing good counts nearly as much as doing well

By Sharon Begley

SAN JOSE, CA Regional Medical Center infection control

First Opinion

Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center

By Michael L. Millenson

AI palliative care

Health Tech

An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations

By Rebecca Robbins

Medical navigation Covid-19

First Opinion

To make progress against Covid-19, processes must serve people, not a ‘labyrinth of bureaucratic rules’

By Peter Pronovost

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Yolanda Desir & Marie Deus

On the Front Lines

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

By Eric Boodman

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mammograms_CA

Health

Ignoring cancer care now may trade one public health crisis — Covid-19 — for another, NCI chief warns

By Elizabeth Cooney

Karen Howley

Health

‘We have a job to do’: Cancer patients and their doctors carry on with clinical trials during Covid-19

By Elizabeth Cooney

Health

A reckoning for health care professionals: Should they be activists, too?

By Ruth Hailu

stethoscope & tablet on table

Health Tech

Telehealth is a ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic, but implementing it permanently won’t be easy

Denver protest/pepper spray Black lives

First Opinion

Beyond words: medical institutions must act to support Black lives

By Carrie Flynn and Chinye Ijeli

resident physician

First Opinion

Resident physicians should have a say in their working conditions

By Ajay Major and Garth Strohbehn

Empty ICU

First Opinion

Hospitals are busier than ever — and going out of business

By Zahir Kanjee, Ateev Mehrotra, and Bruce Landon

ca icu patient psychiatry residents

First Opinion

We’re psychiatry residents. We will take good care of you if you get Covid-19

By Jack Turban and Chase T.M. Anderson

Politics

Trump administration proposes a dramatic payment boost for CAR-T treatments under Medicare

By Nicholas Florko

Surprise bills concept

First Opinion

Three traps for the unwary in HHS’ provider relief fund

By Mark Hedberg, James Pinna, and Sean O’Connell

Miss. nasal swab

Health

7 questions about Covid-19 testing and what it means for reopening the country

By Elizabeth Cooney

Brigham and Women's Covid

On the Front Lines

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

By Eric Boodman

remdesivir antiviral drug

Health

Doctors lambaste federal process for distributing Covid-19 drug remdesivir

By Eric Boodman and Casey Ross

plastic bag ventilator

First Opinion

Lifesaving ventilators will sit unused without a national data-sharing effort

By Jayson Marwaha, John D. Halamka, and Gabriel Brat

DACA protest

First Opinion

Striking down DACA would eliminate thousands of health care workers, thwarting America’s pandemic response

By Priscilla Chan and Sam Hawgood

St. Joseph's Hospital ICU patient

Health

Doctors anticipate patient requests for experimental remdesivir before all the evidence comes in

By Elizabeth Cooney

Virus outbreak contact tracing

First Opinion

Public-private partnerships for contact tracing can help stop Covid-19

By Jaewon Ryu and Karen M. Murphy

ICU beds CA

Health Tech

Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works

smart phone med records

Health Tech

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

telehealth call

First Opinion

Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too

By Janice John, Leah Zallman, and Jessamyn Blau

nurse whiteboard note covid

First Opinion

The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity

By Iniya Rajendran and Stephanie Van Decker