When Kenneth Hass died at the Oregon State Hospital on March 18, 2025, he had been in a solitary seclusion room for more than seven months. That’s roughly 250 days more than the 24 hours that usually ...

Researchers have studied the emotional and professional impact of patient safety incidents on physicians, as well as the ...

Being admitted to a mental health unit can be one of the most vulnerable moments in a person's life. They often arrive in the midst of a crisis, and are fearful, confused, and anxious. But in these ...

A 63-year-old man known as the Oslo patient is "likely cured" of HIV after a stem-cell transplant remodeled his entire immune system. Prior to this case, a handful of other HIV patients who received ...

While the policy changes create new opportunities, they also introduce operational complexity. Here's some important things ...

When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the first minutes after their arrival. After studying trauma resuscitation ...

Over the past few years, some dedicated physicians and other emergency department team members have created a new program. It's called Community Teleparamedicine. (I understand from the physician who ...

At a recent dental appointment, I was unexpectedly seen by a new provider in my longtime dentist’s practice. Early in the visit, he realized we were both Iranian American. Like me, he had been born ...

AI answered the question by producing 162 pages of laws and footnotes, and concluded: Yes, the Alaska Department of Health, ...