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NYC Nurses Reach a Deal to End Strike at 2 Major Hospitals

The walkout continues at NewYork Presbyterian

(Newser) - Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety, health insurance, and other issues. The tentative agreement announced Monday by the union representing nurses involves the Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospital systems. Nurses remain...

Hospitals Scrambling, Nurses' Strike Enters Day 2

Mamdani joins picket line, says 'there's no shortage of wealth in the health care industry'

(Newser) - Thousands of New York City nurses are returning to the picket lines Tuesday as their strike targeting some of the city's leading hospital systems entered its second day with no signs of an end. On Monday, the city's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, stood beside nurses on a picket...

15K Nurses Walk Off the Job in NYC
15K Nurses Walk
Off the Job in NYC

15K Nurses Walk Off the Job in NYC

Three hospital systems involved in what is the largest nurse strike in city history

(Newser) - Thousands of nurses in three hospital systems in New York City went on strike Monday after negotiations through the weekend failed to yield breakthroughs in their contract disputes. Nurses were to start walking off the job at 6am at the Mount Sinai Hospital and two of its satellite campuses. The...

Hillary Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot

Secretary of state being treated with anticoagulants after concussion

(Newser) - It looks like Hillary Clinton will ring in 2013 in a New York hospital, where she was admitted yesterday after the discovery of a blood clot. That clot is related to the concussion she suffered in mid-December, and was identified during a follow-up exam yesterday, according to her spokesman. He...

Surgery Marathons Raise Questions on Cost, Ethics

One man's procedure cost $300K, but it could push the field

(Newser) - After 43 hours of on-and-off “ex vivo resection”—organs removed, operated on, and replaced—a Wisconsin man is free of the 10-pound tumor strangling his liver. Along with it went parts of his stomach and intestine, and his abdomen contains not only Gore-Tex tubing but parts of his...

Johns Hopkins Tops Hospital Rankings

Mayo Clinic, UCLA follow in US News rankings

(Newser) - Johns Hopkins has been named America’s best hospital for the 19th year in a row, the Baltimore Sun reports. The closely followed US News & World Report rankings placed Hopkins first in rheumatology, urology, and ear, nose and throat; it was second in neurology and neurosurgery, geriatrics, gynecology, ophthalmology,...

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