In a new study published June 20 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and collaborators took a significant step toward understanding idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis—and numerous other complex diseases—with an algorithm that interprets disease data and proposes treatments.
Overall, the study found 37% of respondents experienced either verbal or emotional abuse on a daily basis while 56.6% experienced physical violence at some point while working with their current agency. Furthermore, 20% reported experiencing monthly occurrences of physical violence. In most cases, patients were the primary perpetrators.
A unique legal argument attaching a battery claim to a wrongful death case in civil court will no longer be among the claims jurors will be considering in the high-profile wrongful death case involving the 2021 death of a 19-year-old patient at an Ascension hospital in Appleton. Grace Schara, 19, died Oct. 13, 2021, seven days after she was admitted to Ascension NE Wisconsin-St. Elizabeth Hospital for symptoms of COVID-19. Scott Schara, her father, sued the hospital a year and a half later in a wrongful death case that includes claims of medical negligence, violation of informed consent and, initially, battery. The family argues Grace died from a drug overdose from precedex, lorazepam, morphine as a result of an illegal do not resuscitate order.
Hundreds of U.S. hospitals that depend on foreign-trained doctors are facing urgent staffing challenges due to new travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration. These measures have delayed or blocked the entry of international medical graduates scheduled to begin residencies on July 1, The New York Times reports.
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a rule adopted by the administration of former President Joe Biden that strengthened privacy protections for women seeking abortions and patients who receive gender transition treatments. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, says HHS exceeded its powers and unlawfully limited states' ability to enforce their public health laws when it adopted the rule last year. The rule prohibits healthcare providers and insurers from giving information about a legal abortion to state law enforcement authorities who are seeking to punish someone in connection with that abortion.