On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to ...

In the final days of the Biden Administration, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a notice ...

New data published today shows that 784 patients a day were in hospital with norovirus last week (week ending 19 January 2025), up from 650 the previous week. Levels ...

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Medicare patients referred to a neurologist had to wait a median of 34 days before being seen, and nearly 1 in 5 patients waited more than 90 days, in 2018 and 2019, according to a study published ...

Patients on trolleys lined up head to toe are the “new normal” in casualty, says a top doctor. We were given exclusive access to the front line days after a survey of 5,000 nursing staff ...

For example, a treatment for cholangiocarcinoma — a rare form of cancer that forms in a patient's bile ducts — is considered a "global standard of care" in other countries, but isn't ...

LONDON - UK patients are “coming to harm” with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a “collapse in care standards”, a report said on Jan 16.

Because public health agencies have learned that these patients had bird flu days or weeks after the person became ill, it has hampered efforts to find out how they were exposed and make sure they ...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, while sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to a damning report into the state of the NHS. The Royal ...

Tearful nurses told an RCN briefing in central London of being powerless as patients spend hours slowly dying on a trolley in a busy corridor and finding a dead patient under a pile of coats.