hospital medicine

Promising work just published in Nature Medicine especially offers hope to chronically ill patients battling drug-resistant infections while most compromised with weakened im

The headlines are rampant lately about “a mysterious and deadly fungal infection..spreading across the globe” that identifies multidrug-resistant yeast, Candida auris, as a “new fungal superbug.” And, as is common with such alarming heade

Comedian, actress and “The View” talk show host Whoopi Goldberg survived, but is still recovering from, a harrowing ordeal.

A study on maternal health in Risk Analysis found hospital delivery complications to be highest on night shifts, weekends and holidays when compared to daytime, weekday

End-of-life hospitalizations can, for obvious reasons, be brutal for the individual and his or her loved ones.

The New York Post just published a piece entitled Mom gives birth in outdoor bathtub without medical help: ‘It felt r

It seems intuitive and driven by common sense to have a set of standards for a hospital to meet to ensure patient safety.

The results of the biennial 2018 Survey of America’s Physicians, intended to “take the pulse” of doctors in the U.S., were recently

It is time to question the boondoggle that is and will be the implementation of the World Health Organization-generated International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (

It is officially July, and that means something in the medical world. With the passage of one day, the first of the month exalts recent medical school graduates to the rank of intern.