Hospitals

Federal agencies say cybercriminals are unleashing a major ransomware assault against the U.S. healthcare system.

Boston hospitals have been preparing for a second surge all summer long.

Rural Jerauld County in South Dakota didn’t see a single case of the coronavirus for more than two months stretching from June to August.

A second surge of the coronavirus in the fall and winter could be catastrophic for the U.S. It’s not just more sick people that doctors worry about, NBC News reports.

Even after coronavirus cases subsided in New York City, health care workers who battled the worst of the pandemic are still struggling with the mental health consequences. The New York Times interviewed NYC health care workers about their long-term emotional struggles.

Doctors, hospitals and medical students are ramping up efforts to register voters as part of a nationwide campaign this month

Moksh Nirvaan isn’t your average 16-year-old. The Plano, Texas, teen is building an artificial intelligence-based tool to help hospitals quickly identify Covid-19 cases by scanning chest X-rays. And he’s also developing an app to help users find nearby emergency supplies like antibacterial wipes and toilet paper.

As the first wave of coronavirus cases peaked in the Northeast U.S. this spring, eight healthcare workers from New York City and across the country shared their intimate experiences fighting the virus — through exhaustion, grief and fear.

Jordan Kudlak works as a nurse in a Covid-19 unit in South Carolina and has seen firsthand how coronavirus can be serious—or fatal—for both the old and young. And now that she has contracted the virus herself, she has personally experienced how easy the virus is to catch, even if you take every precaution.

As coronavirus cases spike in Texas, an emergency room physician in Houston said starting her shift every day is like going to war. Dr. Gina Blocker said her hospital is seeing young people with serious symptoms as well as a disproportionate number of patients of color.

Dr. Murtaza Akhter, an emergency room physician in Arizona, and Dr. Margaret J. Gorensek, an infectious disease specialist in Florida, joined LX News to describe the daily juggling act at their hospitals to care for a surge of new patients as coronavirus cases spike in their states.

Months into battling Covid-19, doctors from across the globe are still struggling to come up with a standard of care and core protocols for treating patients. The New York Times interviews doctors about how they are adjusting their treatments to this novel virus.

At St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Queens, New York, doctors, nurses and morgue workers describe the toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on their institution – and on each of them personally. The New York Times went inside the hospital 48 days after its first COVID-19 case.

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many pregnant women to consider home births to avoid hospitals and other expectant moms ill with COVID-19 in the labor and delivery ward. Indeed, a startling analysis of universal test results at two New York City hospitals last month found about 13% of women who showed up to have a baby were coronavirus positive, even though they felt...

Doctors, nurses and other medical staffers are being told to step back from their jobs as hospitals across the country grapple with mounting financial losses due to the pandemic.

The finances of Massachusetts hospitals are taking a hard hit during the pandemic. The state’s hospitals are currently losing $1.4 billion in revenue each month and are projected to lose $5 billion in revenue through July, according to the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association, The Boston Globe reported. The downturn is being caused by the cancellation of elective and non-critical…

Hospitals across the United States are facing financial ruin.

As coronavirus spreads across rural America, many struggling hospitals are seeing a massive loss of revenue after they were forced to cancel profitable elective procedures.

Since the coronavirus pandemic first emerged in China, more than a quarter of a million people around the world have died from COVID-19 — many without a family member by their side to help them through their final moments. With most hospitals banning visits, the infectious nature of the virus has made it impossible for many families to be at the...

After months of delays, hospitals are starting to schedule patients for their medical procedures. Starting in early May, patients in about 20 states are getting rebooked for non-emergency procedures like hip and knee replacements, tumor removals and organ transplants, which had been delayed until further notice.

Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. are citing an increase in “malicious cyber campaigns” targeting hospitals, medical institutions and others involved in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.