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Most patients aren't receiving all the meds they should based on guidelines, nor are they getting them at the most effective time in their disease course, suggests a registry study of patients in the United States hospitalized with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). 2023-06-21

Medical-surgical registered nurses say their concerns over staffing levels and quality of patient care have been ongoing and ignored by management for the past six years. 2023-06-24

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) certainly affected hospital finances, but government aid may have given some organizations' bottom lines an oversized boost. A new study published in JAMA Health Forum found that many hospitals achieved all-time high financial positions 2 years into the pandemic despite rising supply and labor costs, suggesting that they may have received too much relief funding. 2023-07-19

Multiple gut bacterial species that are commonly found in the mouth, especially several forms of Streptococcus, were associated with coronary atherosclerosis and systemic inflammatory biomarkers in a population-based observational study. 2023-07-19

Days into our freshman year of medical school at the University of Louisville, all 140 of us were herded into the gross anatomy lab on the top floor of the main building. Rows of florescent lights illuminated a space where we would spend months studying the human body in minute detail. Despite my having spent summers as a nursing assistant and occasionally observing surgery, my anxiety grew as the professor began assigning cadavers. I'd never fainted in my life but the thought was more terrifying than what lay beneath the thick, smudgy plastic in the steel case before me. 2023-07-20