U.S. Faces Critical IV Fluid Shortage

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Tampa Bay's main hospital is built on a low-lying island. Hurricane Milton could push its defenses to the limit.

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An AquaFence flood wall is put into place around Tampa General Hospital ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected mid-week landfall in Tampa, Florida on October 8, 2024. Storm
An AquaFence flood wall was placed around Tampa General Hospital ahead of Hurricane Milton's expected midweek landfall in Tampa, Florida, on October 8.

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Some US hospitals are canceling non-emergency surgeries and procedures amid the global IT outage

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Hospital systems are seeing effects to patient care stemming from the global Crowdstrike IT outage.

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Big corporate American hospitals now want you to pay up front for surgery

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Some corporate-owned hospitals are demanding payment up front for surgeries.

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Hospital wait times will still be bad this year, even with labor gains

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The US is slowly recovering from a physician shortage.

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Why America's hospitals are on life support

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In community after community, the hospitals keep closing. In 2018, it was Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio.

Oldest siblings tend to make more money. Researchers have a new theory that explains why.

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Researchers have a new theory for why older siblings tend to make more money than their younger siblings.

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Healthcare startups are rushing to sell AI to hospital systems. But a new survey suggests many simply aren't ready for it.

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As startups seek to bring AI to the healthcare industry, many health systems don't have clear policies in place to govern the tech.

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The Red Cross has seen a 40% decrease in blood donations over the last 20 years. Experts say Gen Z is to blame.

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An American Red Cross bloodmobile.

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Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report

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Syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl in an inpatient pharmacy.

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