Industry News

By Todd C. Frankel and Lenny Bernstein

A report from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee found that mistakes in transplant organ... Read More »

70 Deaths, Many Wasted Organs Are Blamed on Transplant System Errors

By Mary Melchionna

New guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department... Read More »

HHS, DOJ Issue Guidance to Eliminate Telehealth Discrimination

By Hayden Bosworth, Phillip E. Tarkington, Matthew J. Crowley, et al.

A Duke University-led study assessed the clinical value of a comprehensive telehealth... Read More »

Effect of a Comprehensive Telehealth Intervention vs Telemonitoring and Care Coordination in Patients With Persistently Poor Type 2 Diabetes Control

By Apoorva Mandavilli

As World Health Organization (WHO) advisers reached a stalemate, Director-General Tedros Adhanom... Read More »

W.H.O. Declares Monkeypox Spread a Global Health Emergency

By Bernise Carolino

The California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District recently ruled that a hospital can be held... Read More »

California Court Rules Hospital 'Not Liable' for Doctor It Doesn't Employ

By HHS OIG News Release

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a special... Read More »

Special Fraud Alert: OIG Alerts Practitioners to Exercise Caution When Entering Into Arrangements with Purported Telemedicine Companies

By Noel Eldridge, Yun Wang, Mark Metersky; et al.

Data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System show a downward pattern in... Read More »

Trends in Adverse Event Rates in Hospitalized Patients, 2010-2019

By Lena H. Sun

Hospital "superbug" infections, which declined almost 30% during 2012–2017, made... Read More »

Pandemic Fueled Surge in Superbug Infections and Deaths, CDC Says

By NIH News Release

The results of a new study show that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United... Read More »

COVID-19 Was Third Leading Cause of Death in the United States in Both 2020 and 2021