Unions Accuse UPMC of Wielding Market Power Against Workers
A coalition of labor groups on Thursday filed an antitrust complaint with the Justice Department …
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As Hospitals Close and Doctors Flee, Sudan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing
With the battle for control of Sudan entering its third week, health care services are …
Lessons From a Difficult Patient
The only patients deemed more difficult than insistent patients like Sal were his opposites: patients …
As Hospitals Close Children’s Units, Where Does That Leave Lachlan?
It was Lachlan Rutledge’s sixth birthday, but as he mustered a laborious breath and blew …
Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care
One of the country’s largest nonprofit hospital chains, Providence, will refund payments made by more …
Hospital and Drugmaker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers DNA
The Mount Sinai Health System began an effort this week to build a vast database …
Kevin M. Cahill, 86, Dies; Tropical Disease Expert With a Political Bent
Kevin M. Cahill, who managed to pack several careers into a single life as a …
What a High-Risk Pregnancy Looks Like After Dobbs
Pregnancy can be dangerous — occasionally fatal — for both women and the fetuses they …
Flexible Space for the Next Pandemic
Officials at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego had already begun work on a $1.2 …
Under the Skin, by Linda Villarosa
In Under the Skin, Linda Villarosa disproves once and for all the theory that people of color are responsible for their own failed health care.
Can I Withhold Medical Care From a Bigot?
The magazines Ethicist columnist on a physicians duties.
Imaging Contrast Dye Shortage Delays Tests for Diseases
Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical.
In South Korea, Ghost Surgeries Lead to Cameras in Hospitals
After scandals in which doctors let unsupervised assistants operate on patients, the country is becoming one of the first to require cameras in operating rooms.
Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments awaiting the help they desperately need.
Loss of Pandemic Aid Stresses Hospitals That Treat the Uninsured
Hospitalizations from Covid-19 are receding, but safety-net providers are facing tremendous unmet needs from poor and uninsured patients who delayed seeking care during the pandemic.