Hospitals

Teaching Hospital Safety

Special Report

The next generation of doctors may be learning bad habits at teaching hospitals with many safety violations

By Max Blau

Organ transplant

In the Lab

A ‘breakthrough in organ preservation’: Study shows keeping livers warm helps preserve them for transplant

By Eric Boodman

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Boston marathon bombing

First Opinion

A surgeon’s (unsaid) advice to his teenage daughter: ‘Sweetheart, don’t forget your tourniquet’

By Jeffrey Kalish

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Miniature health care

First Opinion

Microhospitals and healthplexes offer a peek at the future of health care

By Rita E. Numerof

Infant and parents

First Opinion

Doctors like me are at a loss when parents can’t agree on their child’s treatment

By Christopher Hartnick

BG Joint Replacement

Health

Boomers line up for joint replacements, and their expectations are high

By Robert Weisman — Boston Globe

Prescription Drugs

First Opinion

Trump wants to reduce opioid prescriptions by one-third. We can start now

By Richard J. Barth and Maureen V. Hill

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Medicaid Hospitals

First Opinion

340B is a well-intentioned drug discount program gone awry

By Elsa Pearson and Austin Frakt

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Empty intravenous pole

Hospitals

Hospitals are confronting a new opioid crisis: an alarming shortage of pain meds

KHN SURGERY CENTERS

Health

As surgery centers boom, patients are paying with their lives

By Christina Jewett — Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia — USA TODAY Network

Stethoscope on white background

First Opinion

The steady growth in health care jobs isn’t all positive

By Nisarg A. Patel

Chuck Grassley

Politics

Grassley joins the debate over drug discounts with bill pushing hospitals to disclose payments

By Erin Mershon

Infusion

Health

What’s in the IV bag? Studies show safer option than saline

By Associated Press

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

People with mental illness can make psychiatric advance directives. We need to encourage them to do so

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Boston Children's

Health

Use of placebos on children in study draws researcher’s ire

By Liz Kowalczyk — Boston Globe

Hospitals

Hospitals are revolting against the generic drug market. Here’s why

Carrot stick

First Opinion

Pay for performance: a dangerous health policy fad that won’t die

By Kip Sullivan and Stephen Soumerai

Group-B Streptococcus - Sepsis

First Opinion

Sepsis: the Achilles’ heel of health care

By John McDonough

Dan Liljenquist

Hospitals

In Utah, an unlikely crusader fights the generic-drug industry with his own free-market approach

Hospitals

Why do hospitals bare butts when there are better gowns around?

By Bob Tedeschi

Mayo Clinic-Albert Lea

Hospitals

Paying more and getting less: As hospital chains grow, local services shrink

Emergency room

First Opinion

Taking a grassroots approach to fighting the opioid epidemic

By Hamad Husainy

Drug Price Transparency

Pharmalot

Angered by high prices and shortages, hospitals will form their own generic drug maker

By Ed Silverman

2018 flu prep

Hospitals

A severe flu season is stretching hospitals thin. That is a very bad omen

By Helen Branswell

Hospitals-Flu Season-Shortages

Health

IV bag shortage has hospitals scrambling to treat flu

By Associated Press

Wedowee Hospital - Alabama

Hospitals

In states that didn’t expand Medicaid, hospital closures have spiked

Pediatric ER

First Opinion

When a child needs trauma care, parents’ presence is an asset, not a nuisance

By Donald Plumley

Elder Care

Health

Dementia patients often need hospitals, which are frequently ill-prepared

By Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

Three to Watch - Political Issues for Hospitals

Hospitals

3 political issues for hospitals to watch in 2018