The acute food shortage in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become so severe that “famine is imminent” and the enclave is on the verge of a “major acceleration of deaths and malnutrition,” a report from a global authority on food security and nutrition said on Monday. The group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification global […]
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Gang Violence Pushes Haiti’s Health System to the Brink of Collapse
Taïna Cenatus, a 29-year-old culinary student in Haiti, lost her balance at school one day this month and toppled over, but it was not until she hit the ground that she realized she had been hit in the face by a stray bullet. It left a small hole in her cheek, just missing her jawbone […]
Read MoreA UnitedHealthcare and Mount Sinai Dispute May Force Thousands to Switch Doctors
Stalled contract negotiations between UnitedHealthcare, the health insurance giant, and Mount Sinai Health System, a leading New York City hospital system, are forcing tens of thousands of New Yorkers to switch doctors or risk paying out-of-network prices. The impasse has dragged on for months. Mount Sinai has sought to raise prices significantly, but the insurance […]
Read MoreIn Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs
Ce’Yann Irving, a mother of a 1-year-old daughter, pays $990 a month for a two-bedroom apartment on the site of a former dairy processing plant in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. She has amenities, like a 24-hour gym and an on-site community clinic, at arm’s reach. “I’m a first-time mom, so if my […]
Read MoreWith Cyberattack Fix Weeks Away, Health Providers Slam United
More than two weeks after a cyberattack, financially strapped doctors, hospitals and medical providers on Friday sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group’s latest estimate that it would take weeks longer to fully restore a digital network that funnels hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance payments every day. UnitedHealth said that it would be at least two […]
Read MoreCyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System
An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer center is racing to find money for chemotherapy drugs to avoid delaying critical treatments for its patients. And in Pennsylvania, a primary care doctor is slashing expenses and pooling all of her […]
Read MoreIsraeli Forces Search Nasser Hospital in Gaza for Remains of Hostages
Israeli special forces were combing southern Gaza’s largest hospital in search of hostages’ remains on Friday, as Gazan officials announced that a power outage at the medical center had caused the deaths of five Palestinians in the critical care unit. While the raid has left the hospital, Nasser Medical Center, barely functional at a time […]
Read MoreFour Dead At Nasser Hospital After Outage, Gaza Health Ministry Says
Gaza’s health ministry said Friday that electric generators cut out and all power was lost at a major Gaza hospital raided by Israeli forces a day earlier, leading to the deaths of four patients dependent on oxygen. The Gaza health ministry said in posts on Facebook that the Israeli military was in control of the […]
Read MoreRussia Hides Its War Toll. We Pieced Together the Clues.
The true casualty toll in Russia from its invasion of Ukraine is an enduring secret of the war. The Kremlin maintains a policy of silence, and many Russians do not speak publicly for fear of repercussions. But the number of Russians wounded in combat is believed to be staggering. The Pentagon puts the Russian death […]
Read MoreHe Lost a Son, Then Chronicled Life in a Gaza Hospital Where He Sought Shelter
For weeks, Mustafa Abutaha wandered the halls of one of Gaza’s few functioning hospitals and filled his days by volunteering to do whatever was needed — sweeping floors, baking bread, dressing injured patients, feeding dates or tomato sandwiches to those who couldn’t feed themselves. Anything to avoid thinking about his son, Muhammed. As the Israeli […]
Read MoreHundreds Flee Nasser Hospital in Gaza After Israel Orders Evacuation
Hundreds of displaced Palestinians were fleeing a major hospital in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to doctors and videos from the scene, after Israeli forces ordered them to leave and threatened military action to stop what it said was Hamas activity at the hospital. Thousands of Gazans have been sheltering at the Nasser Medical […]
Read MoreIsrael Orders Evacuation of Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza
Israeli forces have ordered Palestinians sheltering at one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza to evacuate from the complex, raising fears that troops will attempt to storm a facility crowded with thousands of people, some of whom have been shot at as they tried to flee, according to doctors there. The Israeli military accused […]
Read MoreHottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I.
In September, the Mayo Clinic in Arizona created a first-of-its-kind job at the hospital system: chief artificial intelligence officer. Doctors at the Arizona site, which has facilities in Phoenix and Scottsdale, had experimented with A.I. for years. But after ChatGPT’s release in 2022 and an ensuing frenzy over the technology, the hospital decided it needed […]
Read MoreNYC Wants to Free Half a Million New Yorkers From Medical Debt
New York City will buy up millions of dollars of medical debt and erase it in a program that officials hope will ultimately help as many as 500,000 New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the city would invest $18 million in a partnership with a nonprofit organization that buys up unpaid medical debt […]
Read MoreWhat to Know About the Federal Law at the Heart of the Latest Supreme Court Abortion Case
One of the newest battlefields in the abortion debate is a decades-old federal law called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known by doctors and health policymakers as EMTALA. The issue involves whether the law requires hospital emergency rooms to provide abortions in urgent circumstances, including when a woman’s health is threatened by continuing […]
Read MoreFighting Near Gaza Hospital, and Trump Sharpens Attacks on Haley
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Read MorePalestinians Flee Gaza Hospital Refuge as Fighting Intensifies
Scores of displaced Palestinians fled the grounds of a hospital in southern Gaza as fighting raged on Wednesday in and around the city of Khan Younis, where the Israeli military says it is trying to crush a Hamas stronghold. Videos verified by The New York Times show families fleeing the hospital, Nasser Medical Center in […]
Read MoreBloomberg Initiative Will Prepare Boston High Schoolers to Start Hospital Jobs
Public school students in Boston will have a direct route to guaranteed jobs with the city’s largest employer, the Mass General Brigham health system, via a new initiative that will pair high schools eager to expand career training with hospitals desperate for workers. A $38 million investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies — the largest gift in […]
Read MoreDoctor Error Caused Christine Fields’ Death After Childbirth at Woodhull Medical Center
Investigators with the New York State Department of Health have concluded that a troubling lapse by a surgical team at a hospital in Brooklyn resulted in the recent death of a 30-year-old mother who gave birth by cesarean section, according to a document obtained by The New York Times. It is the second known instance […]
Read MorePressure Builds on Pentagon to Explain Timeline of Austin’s Hospitalization
The Pentagon came under increased pressure Sunday to explain why senior Biden administration officials, congressional representatives and the president himself were not notified of the hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III until days later. Former Vice President Mike Pence called Mr. Austin’s delay in disclosing his hospitalization a “dereliction of duty.” Speaking on […]
Read MoreCovid Has Resurged, but Scientists See a Diminished Threat
The holidays have come and gone, and once again Americans are riding a tide of respiratory ailments, including Covid. But so far, this winter’s Covid uptick seems less deadly than last year’s, and much less so than in 2022, when the Omicron surge ground the nation to a halt. “We’re not seeing the signs that […]
Read MoreIn U.K. Town, a New Way of Caring for Older People
For 12 years after her husband died, Norma Fitzgerald tried to maintain her independence, living alone in an apartment on the outskirts of Hull, in northern England, despite her mobility worsening as she reached her mid-80s. Then one day in the spring of 2022, she suddenly grew dizzy. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed […]
Read MoreIn U.K. Town, a New Way of Caring for Older People
For 12 years after her husband died, Norma Fitzgerald tried to maintain her independence, living alone in an apartment on the outskirts of Hull, in northern England, despite her mobility worsening as she reached her mid-80s. Then one day in the spring of 2022, she suddenly grew dizzy. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed […]
Read MoreSerious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals
The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on patient care in recent years. The study, published in JAMA on Tuesday, found that, in the three years after a private equity fund bought a […]
Read MoreA Rejected A.L.S. Drug Made Me Rethink the Role of Hope in Medicine
Of all the ways the body can go wrong, A.L.S. is one of the most frightening. It begins subtly — a twitching muscle, a cough when you swallow or a clumsy hand. But then it progresses. Motor neurons degenerate and die. You lose the ability to talk, to eat and ultimately to breathe. There is […]
Read MoreBellevue Hospital Bariatric Surgery Program Is Under NY State Scrutiny
The New York State Department of Health is scrutinizing Bellevue Hospital’s use of unlicensed technicians to assist doctors in weight-loss surgeries. Bellevue, a large public hospital in Manhattan, churns thousands of low-income patients through bariatric surgery every year, The New York Times reported this month. Doctors are paid in part based on the volume of […]
Read MoreNew England Storm Leaves Nearly 600,000 Still Without Power
Hundreds of thousands of people were facing power outages on Tuesday that could take days to restore after a sweeping costal storm battered the Northeast with whipping winds and soaking downpours. Nearly 600,000 customers across New England were without power early Tuesday, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks the utility industry. Most of the outages were […]
Read MoreThe Destruction of Gaza’s Health Care Promises Grave Consequences
I started training to be a doctor in the aftermath of the gulf war. It was a dark time to commit to a career of healing. U.S. sanctions and relentless bombings had decimated our medical infrastructure and endangered our access to medical supplies. Surrounded by devastation, we fought to heal, to operate, to comfort — […]
Read MoreA 3-Day Raid in Jenin by Israel Ends With at Least 12 Palestinians Dead, Officials Say
At least 78 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military raids in Jenin since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, making it the deadliest period in the city in recent years. Across the West Bank, at least 286 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, most during Israeli raids but others […]
Read MoreThe Role of Unconscious Bias in Black Women’s Pregnancy Risks
Shakima Tozay was 37 years old and six months pregnant when a nurse, checking the fetal heart rate of the baby boy she was carrying, referred to him as “a hoodlum.” Ms. Tozay, a social worker, froze. She had just been hospitalized at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash., with pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication […]
Read MoreBellevue Hospital Rushes Patients Into Weight-Loss Surgery
Early one morning in February, a guard clanged on the door of David Mustiga’s jail cell on Rikers Island. Soon, the 43-year-old was shackled and put on a bus to Bellevue. Rikers detainees often struggle to get even rudimentary medical care. But Mr. Mustiga and 10 other prisoners have undergone elective bariatric surgery at Bellevue, […]
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