Hospitals

Health

Can this doctor figure out how to stop Alzheimer’s before it starts?

By Joshua Kendall

IV Drip Patient Safety

First Opinion

A new approach can take patient safety to the next level

By Jenna Merandi and Thomas Bartman

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Lamar Alexander 340B

Politics

Key lawmaker calls for more scrutiny of hospitals using drug discount program — but no broader changes

By Erin Mershon

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Hospital medicaid

First Opinion

An insider’s view of the myths and misconceptions behind 340B ‘reform’

By Bradford R. Lang

Exclusive

Citing weak demand, IBM Watson Health to scale back hospital business

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Group-B Streptococcus - Sepsis

First Opinion

Current efforts to fight sepsis aren’t working. We need a bolder approach

By Derek Angus

Sick Watson

Exclusive

IBM Watson Health hampered by internal rivalries and disorganization, former employees say

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

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FDA Rare Disease

Pharmalot

A bill would preserve the status quo of a contentious drug discount program for hospitals

By Ed Silverman

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IBM Watson

Business

IBM’s problems with Watson Health run deeper than recent layoffs, former employees say

By Casey Ross and Ike Swetlitz

Cardio Exam

Health

After malpractice caps, doctors ordered fewer invasive tests to diagnose heart attacks

By Elizabeth Cooney

Pharmalot

Most emergency docs report shortages of critical medicines, and the problem is ‘getting worse’

By Ed Silverman

Doctor Tablet

Special Report

Artificial intelligence may not be curing cancer, but it is already changing medicine

Business

Experts puzzle over Partners-Harvard Pilgrim merger talks

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Trump healthcare leaders

Politics

Partners, Mayo Clinic among hospital systems quietly advising Trump on improving VA

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

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

Boston marathon bombing

First Opinion

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

By Jeffrey Kalish

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

Medicaid Hospitals

First Opinion

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

By Elsa Pearson and Austin Frakt

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