Hospital Pelvic Exams Will Now Require Written Patient Consent, Under DHHS Orders
Patient consent for sensitive examinations cannot be sacrificed in order to provide practice for doctors in training, new DHHS guidelines state.
Patient consent for sensitive examinations cannot be sacrificed in order to provide practice for doctors in training, new DHHS guidelines state.
Patients often have to be transferred to a publicly-owned facility for treatment of injuries and complications at hospitals owned by private equity firms, researchers found.
Other neonatal incubators should still be run for a full week before use to rid the devices of potentially harmful chemicals, FDA regulators said.
FDA has given the Philips Panorama MRI machine recall a Class I designation, indicating the devices put patients and others at risk of severe injury and death.
Lack of timely testing and adequate syphilis treatment during pregnancy contributed to nearly 90% of all congenital syphilis cases reported in 2022, according to the CDC.
Cardiac patients in the United States receive an unnecessary coronary heart stent every seven minutes, the researchers determined.
Warnings about formaldehyde emissions from GE neonatal incubators were first issued in February 2023, raising concerns over the safety of placing infants in them during stays in hospital NICU wards.
Data indicates 61% of nursing homes restricted new admissions in January and February 2023, due to staffing shortages at facilities throughout the U.S.
Walking programs for senior hospitalized patients may reduce risk of functional decline, which often necessitates nursing home care, researchers found.
C. auris infections, which are often antibiotic-resistant, result in death for about one-third of patients who contract the fungal pathogen.