Three cities in Texas have the highest percentage of adults with fair or poor health, according to WalletHub’s annual ranking, published July 7. To determine the ranking, WalletHub compared 182 cities ...

A study led by Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic found that patient violence often begins in out-of-hospital settings and continues into the ED and other inpatient units. The study, published June 18 ...

A Massachusetts hospital is merging with UMass Memorial Health System and a rural North Carolina hospital is joining Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Here is more information about the two hospital ...

Wright, Fla.-based HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital named Joseph Everette, DNP, RN, as chief nursing officer. In addition, the July 10 hospital Facebook post announcing his appointment also ...

Dymicron’s Triadyme-C artificial disc earned the FDA’s investigational device exemption approval, according to a July 10 news release. The IDE approval opens the door for a U.S. trial of the disc, ...

Orlando, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital, part of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health, has named Heather Fagan, MD, chair of the department of pediatrics and ...

Northwell Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., opened Neurosurgery & Spine at Phelps, according to a July 9 news release. The 2,600-square-foot facility is on the hospital’s campus and is dedicated ...

Kim Spencer, PharmD, St. Louis-based SSM Health’s chief pharmacy officer, has stepped down from her role. Dr. Spencer, who built and oversaw a team of 1,400 pharmacy professionals, said in a July 7 ...

U.S. Radiology Specialists, a physician-owned outpatient medical imaging provider, has rebranded to Lumexa Imaging.  The new name is “rooted in the concept of illumination,” Melissa Weston, senior ...

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Rochester (N.Y.) Wilmot Cancer Institute and New York City-based Mount Sinai, NYU Langone Health and Weill Cornell Medicine ...

A new analysis has challenged an earlier assessment of the severity and prevalence of withdrawal symptoms following antidepressant use, sparking a renewed debate over long-term mental health treatment ...

Paari Gopalakrishnan, MD, has been appointed president and CEO of Towson, Md.-based GBMC HealthCare, effective in September. Dr. Gopalakrishnan currently serves as president and COO Kent Hospital in ...