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Photo by sheff / Shutterstock.com Nobody likes to get sick, especially in the age of the coronavirus, but it’s especially bad to fall into ill health in Alaska, North Dakota or South Dakota. Those are the only three states in the nation that do not have any A-rated hospitals, according …

Hospitals across the country are charging private insurance companies 2.5 times what they get from Medicare for the same care, according to a new RAND Corporation study of hospital prices released on Friday. In a half-dozen of 49 states in the survey, including West Virginia and Florida, private insurers paid …

Here’s what you need to know: Experts warn that new U.S. rules on virus data collection are creating problems for hospitals and data integrity. The principals’ and teachers’ unions in N.Y.C. call on the mayor to delay in-person instruction by several weeks. As U.S. schools reopen, New Jersey and Florida …

Navenio, an AI-powered platform designed to help locate people in hospitals and other indoor locations where GPS is ineffective, has raised £9 million ($ 11 million) in a series A round of funding led by QBN Capital. The raise comes as health care systems around the world are feeling the …

LONDON — Last Wednesday, Steve Coulby, a D.J. for Nottingham Hospitals Radio in England, read out a request from a patient battling Covid-19. “Brian, you’ve given me an awesome responsibility, as you’ve asked for ‘any jazz,’” Mr. Coulby said. “I have to admit,” he added, “what I know about jazz …

Michael Nuzum had spent weeks fighting coronavirus-like symptoms — a wracking cough, terrible chills, an exhausting fever — before collapsing at his home in rural West Virginia. Mr. Nuzum, a 54-year-old animal control worker, was already in cardiac arrest when the emergency workers arrived on April 3. That left them …

WASHINGTON — One Seattle-area hospital has already seen patient care delayed by the stringent infection-control practices that the government recommended for suspected coronavirus cases. Another in Chicago switched Thursday morning into “surge” mode, setting up triage tents in its ambulance bay and dedicating an entire floor to coronavirus patients. At …