Healthcare has no doubt made giant strides in patient safety in recent years: According to an HHS report released in December, hospital-acquired condition rates dropped 17 percent from 2010 to 2014, ...

In an effort to stem the death toll from opioid overdose, United States public health officials have promoted the ...

Rising Prices of Targeted Oral Anticancer Medications and Associated Financial Burden on Medicare Beneficiaries Most crizotinib-treated patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene (ALK)–rearranged ...

As Jane’s 7-year-old daughter, Kelsey, lay in the intensive care unit, shaking from seizures, Jane needed people to listen to her and trust her. Jane — not a textbook — knew which of the five ...

While patients have always been at the center of clinical trials, clinical trials have not been patient-centric. Historically, pharmaceutical companies have relied on experts to design and run ...

Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.

This blog post is the third in a series discussing how vulnerable segments of the US population interact with and experience the health care system. This research is part of the Robert Wood Johnson ...

For a few lucky patients, 2016 was the year when gene therapy turned from promises to cures. The technology, long contemplated as a way to erase disease by revising people's DNA, made big advances and ...

In Texas, the average nurse-to-patient ratio is roughly 4 to 8 patients to one nurse for a medical/surgical unit and 2-3 patients to one nurse for ICU/ER. The average ratio for other states seems to ...

The word “revolution” often gets thrown around cavalierly in the world of healthcare innovation. But it sounded perfectly reasonable during the closing keynote session at MedCity ENGAGE Wednesday.

Patients with cancer who live at home often require help with activities of daily living, basic medical care (eg, injections), social needs, and patient advocacy. Most of that support comes from ...