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Defamation case laws allow you to sue when someone says or writes something about you to another person that is not true. It’s called libel when it’s written. When spoken, it is termed slander. [...]

Last Friday, many hospitals, medical practices and health care facilities across the state participated in #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives, a movement for racial justice by members of our health care [...]

In recent years, U.S. emergency departments have prescribed fewer opioids for pain patients. Yet some worry the pendulum might have swung too far, marginalizing and stigmatizing pain patients who [...]

The COVID-19 crisis is pushing nurses to the limit of their mental and physical health. Trusted Health recently conducted a survey of more than 1,400 nurses across all 50 states to shed new light [...]

If you want to get a close-up view of how the coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on America’s health care system, just look at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, one of the nation’s earliest [...]

When she accepted a job 20 years ago at the Hudson County Correctional Center in New Jersey, many of her friends were puzzled. A veteran nurse, she had many other offers to work in less intense [...]

My message this week has turned from COVID battles, which still continue, to the recent eruption of racial violence and senseless death of George Floyd. As his family buried him yesterday, we ask [...]

Many health care professionals are raising concerns that other patients with non-COVID health care issues may be falling through the cracks because they have delayed seeking care or have had [...]

As we journey through this most challenging time in our nursing careers, it is so very important to remember to take care of ourselves. Whatever your day consists of, here are three things I do [...]

Infectious disease specialists at the CDC and other organizations are placing an increasing emphasis on the use of contact tracers to rein in a resurgence of the virus as states reopen businesses [...]