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A 37-hospital registry tracked 17,602 adults whose hearts stopped while admitted. CPR usually started within a minute, yet only 9.1% survived to discharge — and after-care lagged far behind the initial response.
A meta-analysis of 15 cohorts found 45% of deaths in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were classed as avoidable — about 3.6 times the rate in people without disabilities, on rich-country data.
The final FY2027 rule lifts the federal per diem base rate to $912.40 and the electroconvulsive-therapy rate to $688.59 from 1 October, adds a standardised patient-assessment tool, and drops two quality measures.
A mandatory CMS payment model finalised 2 October recalculates inflation rebates for certain physician-administered drugs against an international benchmark, and can cut a patient's coinsurance to 10%.
A GBD 2023 analysis counts the global health workforce by sex for the first time, and finds it nearly tripled since 1990 — yet still falls tens of millions of workers short of universal health coverage.
The PURE study measured airflow obstruction in adults across 25 countries and found most cases had never been labelled, with the largest undiagnosed share in lower-income settings.
A trial across 24 Zambian clinics found a person-centred care package lifted the share of patients in care a year after a treatment gap from 51.5% to 60.1%, and halved repeat interruptions.
An interim final rule lets HHS freeze federal-marketplace registration for agents and brokers without a current plan-year agreement. CMS imposed the pause immediately; it runs until 1 February 2027.
Drawing on households across every province and region, researchers estimate a stillbirth rate of 30.5 per 1,000 births and a maternal mortality ratio of 176 per 100,000 — both above national and 2030 targets.
A review of the Africa CDC and WHO response reports 49,803 confirmed cases and 240 deaths across 28 countries, US$977 million mobilised, and just 32% of 3.1 million delivered vaccine doses administered.
A run of CDC sole-source awards in August 2026 sends millions directly to the health ministries of Ethiopia, Zambia and Ukraine — a bet on host-government ownership of the HIV response by 2030.
A Lancet Global Health model projects that barring women from nursing and midwifery training could cut maternal care-seeking to a third of current levels and raise the maternal mortality ratio 29% to 41% by 2035.
In one civilian-hospital series, 84.6% of wound isolates were multidrug-resistant; in a military cohort, 60% of Pseudomonas isolates were extensively drug-resistant. The war is also a resistance event.
A 2026 review reports more than 70 health facilities destroyed in North Kivu, 7.3 million people displaced and over 2 million children acutely malnourished, as conflict compounds overlapping outbreaks.
The RAPID pathway would issue a proposed national coverage decision the day a device clears the FDA, cutting a process that normally runs 9 to 12 months. The trade-off is evidence.
Fighting after the 2021 coup concentrated where hospital access was already worst. The population living with both poor access and intense conflict rose from 0.4 to 3.1 million in three years.
A survey of 1,042 people in the Syrian city found high prices the leading barrier, and more than half said they knew of deaths they attributed to medication shortages.
A year of alerts at one hospital shows the safety pop-ups clinicians dismiss almost automatically — and why the field still cannot agree on how to measure the problem.
Reviews find portals may improve awareness and the patient–doctor relationship, with unclear effect on efficiency. Under new US rules, patients now see 40% of results before their clinician does.
Randomised trials show acute care delivered at home costs less, uses fewer tests and readmits fewer patients — while making little or no difference to whether they survive.
One found doctors stopped using it as shifts got busier. The other, in 9,691 Kenyan patients, found it safe but no better than the electronic record alone. Neither supports deployment.
A trial in India found calling tuberculosis survivors was non-inferior to visiting them, on a combined measure. Split into survivors and their contacts, the picture reverses for the group at highest risk.
A WHO data-set analysis shows how mobile and hospital teams split the load of hypertension, diabetes and epilepsy care during the war, while a separate study tracked dialysis capacity falling.
Severe dehydration from diarrhoeal disease and sepsis can shut down the kidneys. In a health system with little dialysis, a review argues this is a preventable driver of death that surveillance is missing.
In 6,772 users of a US health system's AI triage tool, people engaged about twice as often when the AI matched what they already planned — raising a hard question about what the tools are steering.
A modelling study estimates near-universal kangaroo care would avert 1.6 million disability-adjusted life-years and shield 57,000 households from catastrophic health costs, with most gains among the poorest.
Applying the 2025 AHA/ACC guideline to a Nigerian survey sharply raised the share classified hypertensive versus older criteria, widening the gap between diagnosis and treatment capacity.
One study maps the five barriers that delayed life-saving crush-syndrome care; another finds the long-term health burden of the disaster fell hardest on young women.
Thirty-two interviews across Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Mexico find implementation turned on governance, not software. A separate patent analysis shows where digital therapeutics are not being built.
THESUS-HF II enrolled 1,578 patients across 50 hospitals in 17 countries. Guideline drugs were prescribed at discharge in most patients, and target doses were reached in fewer than half.
Papers in WHO EMRO's journal document multidrug-resistant hospital infections in Saudi Arabia, unaffordable injectable antibiotics in Iran, and antibiotic use without prescription in displaced Syrians.
A frontier analysis of two decades attributes 97.6% of nutritional disparities between countries to inefficiency rather than to resources. The policy reading is contestable; the decoupling is not.
A national survey finds treatment volumes above 2021 levels and linear accelerators replacing cobalt-60 units. Nearly every department still using cobalt says replacing the source is now unfeasible.
Peer-reviewed work in 2026 argues the effects reach past medicine shortages into financing, procurement, workforce and continuity of care — and frames the finding as association, not proof of cause.
Before October 2023, Palestinian health authorities had documented 50 people living with HIV in Gaza. A viewpoint argues the collapse of testing and treatment has since erased that count entirely.
A prospective study of 660 Syrian refugees living with noncommunicable diseases found symptom burden peaked in the hottest, dustiest period — with asthma and hypertension carrying the highest risk.
Adult TB incidence and mortality are projected to fall 46% and 54% by 2030, short of the 80% and 90% goals. Wider symptom-driven testing matters most to closing the gap, the analysis suggests.
A systematic review of the Syrian crisis and infectious disease in Lebanon names overcrowding, poor sanitation and blocked healthcare access — not the presence of refugees themselves — as the reported drivers.
A national study built for Australia's first Climate Risk Assessment separates the two exposures across ED, inpatient, GP and prescription data. They do not act on the health system the same way.
A rare multicentre record from three Sudanese trauma centres finds penetrating injury in more than nine of ten patients, and civilians in the great majority.
The final rule raises operating payment rates 2.4% and directs about $2.9 billion more to acute-care hospitals in the year from 1 October 2026. Hospital groups called the increase too low.
A community study of 2,340 residents, run after the conflict that wrecked the region's health system, found presumptive tuberculosis above 10% in both town and countryside.
A comparative survey finds four European countries still rely on opportunistic screening, and that where family doctors are most involved, participation tends to be lower — not higher.
Coverage for adult vaccines like pneumococcal sits around a third of those eligible, far below targets. The evidence points less to refusal than to cost, insurance and the absence of a routine adult-vaccine visit.
A 121-country model finds health-system emissions are as unequally distributed as the care itself — and that cutting them may not require cutting care.
Two peer-reviewed studies chart the toll: among 122 Khartoum dialysis patients followed for up to 18 months, 53% survived, and those who stayed in the capital fared worst.
Developing countries paid a record US$1.4 trillion in debt service in 2023. A 105-country study finds debt servicing nudges the health-financing mix toward out-of-pocket, but only modestly.
An all-oral, bedaquiline-based programme treated 277 patients through six years of conflict in eastern Congo and reached 77.6% treatment success — above WHO's 75% mark — but mortality stayed at 13.4%.
The first nationally representative analysis of the 2024 conflict in Lebanon draws on hospital and ministry records. Its most consequential number is how many of the dead arrived already dead.
A national registry analysis found the highest burden among 20-to-29-year-olds and a notable rise among girls aged 10 to 19, with rates concentrated in the Sierra region.
A WHO and Brazil special report released on the summit's Health Day says extreme heat kills over 540,000 people a year and that health facilities face 41% higher weather-damage risk than in 1990.
In a 774-person randomised trial, community health workers delivering medication at home nearly doubled the share of patients whose blood pressure was controlled at six months.
The World Health Assembly approved US$6.2 billion for 2026-2027 after trimming the base to US$4.27 billion. The notified US withdrawal cut the assessments available for it by US$311.1 million.
Reported health-data breaches rose 100% from 2018 to 2023 and the people affected by them 950%. A federal proposal would drop the rule's 'addressable' loophole and require encryption, multi-factor login and more.