The group of nurses at TriStar Centennial Medical Center put the event together in a day, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Victoria Hall, a CDC field officer based in Minnesota, says although CDC's research does not show exactly how many opioid-related overdose deaths go unreported, "we know we are missing cases."
A new JAMA paper reveals the reason "General Hospital" spotlighted a rare cancer that affects just two in 100,000 people: A drugmaker was behind the episode.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania have been exploring whether kidney transplants performed with hepatitis C-infected organs can be done safely—and initial trial results suggest they can, Karen Weintraub reports for STAT News.
After launching a program that enables patients to self-administer antibiotics, Parkland Health & Hospitals cut readmissions for participating patients by almost in half, saved $40 million in unreimbursed costs—and spotlighted a new way to meet the "triple aim" of health care.
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