Hospitals

Deborah DiSanzo

Exclusive

Head of IBM Watson Health leaving post after company stumbles, growing criticism

By Ike Swetlitz and Casey Ross

Tongue depressors

First Opinion

Consolidation is hurting hospitals’ supply costs, not helping them

By Rob Austin

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Psychiatric room - ER

First Opinion

Mental health patients, with nowhere else to go, are overwhelming emergency departments

By Anne Zink

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Therapy Dogs Superbug

Health

Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to kids, hospital finds

By Associated Press

Steven Petrow

First Opinion

Memorial Sloan Kettering, you’ve betrayed my trust

By Steven Petrow

Surgical waste

First Opinion

The hidden harm of health care: air, water, and other pollution

By Jonathan E. Slutzman

Yoko K. Sen

Health

Anatomy of a beep: A medical device giant and an avant-garde musician set out to redesign a heart monitor’s chirps

By Eric Boodman

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In Shift: The Next Generation

Health

Video games make physicians better in emergency decisions, study finds

By Kate Sheridan

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pregnant woman

First Opinion

Maternal deaths represent the canary in the coal mine for women’s health

By Eugene Declercq and Neel Shah

Health

The dogs were supposed to be experts at sniffing out C. diff. Then they smelled breakfast

By Helen Branswell

Orlando Regional Medical Center

First Opinion

The Pulse nightclub tragedy changed how one hospital treats foreign patients

By Eric Alberts and John Corfield

Hospitals

Stanford offers a glimpse into the future of elite children’s hospitals

By Priyanka Dayal McCluskey — Boston Globe

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

Dear Atul Gawande: As you go on your listening tour, don’t forget about mental health

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

A nail salon worker paints a customer's nails.

First Opinion

Nail salon workers helped us turn the idea of community-centered health into reality

By Andrea Caracostis and Jo Carcedo

Doctors running for the surgery

First Opinion

Hospital mergers or acquisitions may cause short-term patient safety issues

By Susan Haas, William Berry, and Mark Reynolds

Ventilator

First Opinion

Hospital Compare lifts the veil on sepsis care. Check your hospital’s score

By Steve Claypool

Politics

Trump administration proposes further cuts to drug discount program that helps hospitals

By Erin Mershon

Hospital Pharmacy 340B

Hospitals

Appeals court rejects hospital industry’s challenge on 340B changes

By Erin Mershon

In the Lab

A CAR-T bottleneck: Centers that collect patient cells feel crunch from growing demand

By Andrew Joseph

Electronic Health Records

First Opinion

Hospitals can save money on drugs without Washington’s help

By Patrick Yoder

First Opinion

What India can teach the U.S. about driving down the cost of health care

By Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti

Alex Azar - Senate Finance Committee hearing

Politics

Azar makes case for revamping hospital drug discounts — to hospitals defending them

By Erin Mershon

Atul Gawande

Health

As Atul Gawande steps into a risky health CEO role, here are five challenges he faces

Hospital

First Opinion

Emergency departments: the ‘chewing gum and duct tape’ holding together U.S. health care

By Paul Seward

Operating Teams Behavior

Health

‘You, me, parking lot!’: Behind surgical curtain, researchers find hierarchies and gender dynamics driving conflict

By Orly Nadell Farber

Atul Gawande Ariadne

Health

Inside Ariadne Labs, Atul Gawande’s testing ground for new ideas in health care

By Ike Swetlitz

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

Lamar Alexander 340B

Politics

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

By Erin Mershon