Daily Briefing

A patient's chance of being screened for cancer increases when the patient sees his or her primary care provider in the morning, according to a recent study in JAMA Network Open. More

In 2016, Penn Medicine launched its so-called "nudge unit," a group focused on making it easier to implement subtle changes within a hospital to improve decision-making, and now, writing in NEJM Catalyst, Sujatha Changolkar, clinical research coordinator for the Penn nudge unit, and colleagues share how others can make nudges work at their organization. More

Congressional Budget Office officials this week told House Budget Committee members that there currently are too many unknowns surrounding a single-payer health care system to determine how such a system would affect insurance rates and government spending. More

The Leapfrog Group recently released its spring Hospital Safety Grades. See how your state's hospitals fared compared with others on patient safety metrics. More

When Frank Baez was 17, he took a job at New York University's Langone Tisch Hospital as a janitor to help his family. On Monday, about 12 years later, Baez graduated from the same college with a nursing degree. More

More than 25% of rural U.S. residents have had trouble accessing health care in recent years, and almost half of them said it was because they couldn't afford it, according survey results NPR released Tuesday. More

At online retailers, men are paying a big markup on erectile dysfunction drugs; some pollen protection tips; and more. More

A year ago, Kurt Niederloh collapsed from a heart attack while running the Run for the Lakes 10K, but two other runners—an RN and a nurse practitioner—saved his life, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Maine, and Minnesota. More