Peer worker-facilitated psychiatric advance directives (PW-PAD) are effective for decreasing compulsory hospital admissions among people with mental disorders.

Researchers compared patient satisfaction with telemedicine visits conducted via phone vs video.

Interns spend only a small proportion of time with hospitalized patients.

Compared with heterosexual students, sexual minority students have less favorable perceptions of the medical school learning environment.

International travelers who arrive in the United States through land ports or ferry terminals will still need to show they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The European Union announced Europe is moving out of the emergency phase of the pandemic.

A federal mask mandate for planes, trains, airports, and some bus services that was set to expire will be extended until May 3, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced.

Health care personnel (HCP) with COVID-19 were more likely to be exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in their workplace than in the community.

A rule requiring US federal government employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been reinstated by a federal appeals court.

The nursing home industry is awash in ineffective care and staffing shortages, claims a new report that calls for sweeping changes in an industry whose failures have only been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Faced with rising COVID-19 case counts, Philadelphia has announced that it will reinstate an indoor mask mandate.

Turnover rates are returning to prepandemic levels across most groups of health care workers.

In an American Academy of Neurology (AAN) survey, researchers assessed self-reported gender disparities experienced by US-based AAN members doing research in neurology.

Most medical debt will be dropped from Americans’ credit reports as of this summer, the top three credit reporting agencies said.

There were considerable declines in employment at skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) during 2020 and 2021, which were positively associated with the severity of COVID-19 burden.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that most Americans can now shed their face coverings in indoor public settings, because the agency has changed how it measures the threat of COVID-19 in local communities.

More than one-third of physicians report that prior authorization has led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care.

In 2020, 11.5% of people aged younger than 65 years were uninsured.

Many states are already dispensing with mask mandates, but the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says COVID-19 case and hospitalization numbers in the United States remain too high to ease its mask guidelines.

An indoor mask mandate in New York state will end, but masks will still be required in schools and for everyone using public transit.

The Biden administration withdrew an emergency COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for workers at large companies following the recent US Supreme Court ruling against the requirement.

Expert calls Pennsylvania’s hospital strike teams short-sighted and a distraction from urgently needed evidence-based policy actions to improve nurse staffing issues.

Surgical patients in hospitals with good nurse work environments have lower odds of intensive care unit admission and mortality.

COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England will be scrapped, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced.

In a retrospective study, researchers sought to identify risk factors that are predictive of delayed seizure detection on continuous electrocephalogram among patients who are critically ill.

Insurance coverage for acupuncturist visits increased from 2010 to 2019, but most costs are paid out of pocket.