Hospital Medicine News

The Mayo Clinic has been ranked the No. 1 hospital in the United States for the seventh consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report.

Poverty is associated with an increased likelihood that a young child hospitalized for maltreatment would be reported to Child Protective Services, or CPS, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

The CDC recently issued a health advisory alerting clinicians that parechovirus, a common childhood pathogen, is circulating in the United States.

Massachusetts General Hospital developed a toolkit that can help identify and respond to potential monkeypox exposures among health care personnel, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Injury-related visits to the emergency department of children’s hospitals decreased by more than a quarter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data published in Pediatrics.

High-dose erythropoietin failed to lower the risk for death among newborns undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, according to study findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The COVID-19 pandemic reversed years of progress against antimicrobial resistance in the United States, with resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increasing at least 15% during the first year, according to a new CDC report.

Dementia cases in the United States were largely associated with modifiable risk factors, such as hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity — especially among Black and Hispanic people, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories on Monday became the second commercial laboratory in the U.S. to begin monkeypox testing as part of an effort to increase testing capacity and access.

Antibodies produced in response to COVID-19 may mistakenly target cells essential to the blood-brain barrier, which can cause bleeds and clots in patients and increase the risk for stroke, researchers reported in Brain.