Veterans Affairs leaders on Monday announced the next 13 sites to receive the department’s embattled new electronic health records system, including multiple facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that she will be directing prosecutors at DOJ to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last year.
A low level of Legionella was detected in one of the inpatient units at Rady Children's Hospital. Rady's released a statement saying that "as a precautionary measure, the hospital is taking steps to sanitize the water system to remove any infection risk."
Kaiser Permanente says it will build a seven-story 615,000-square-foot hospital tower at its Sunnyside Medical Center campus in Clackamas, OR, with an opening date scheduled in 2029. Construction will begin in early 2026, with site-clearance work starting in late 2025. The current hospital building will remain in use until the new hospital tower is built and open on the east side of the Sunnyside Medical Center campus.
A study including more than 80,000 patients with inflammatory bowel disease reveals that Asian and Hispanic Americans with these conditions use healthcare services less than White Americans.
Pregnancy may offer some protection from developing Long COVID, found a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Utah Health and Louisiana Public Health Institute. Previous research has mostly focused on non-pregnant adults affected by Long COVID—a condition lasting for months after a person recovers from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.