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Intensive care units at Boston-area hospitals are filling up as the coronavirus pandemic rages. Overall, hospitals are seeing an average fill-rate of 70% in their ICUs. But it’s higher at some than others. ICU occupancy last week was over 83% at Lawrence General Hospital, over 86% at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, and 93% at Massachusetts General Hospital. “A good…

More hospitals in New England began to administer Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Tuesday, a day after shipments began arriving in the region. Tufts Medical Center was among the hospitals that received vaccine shipments Tuesday and began vaccinating frontline workers. The first recipient at the hospital was Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an associate epidemiologist at the hospital who sees COVID-19 patients...

First lady Melania Trump’s visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., is a White House tradition that dates back to 1945.

Five employees of Tufts Medical Center will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine today.

With a second surge underway, Mass General Brigham closed the 12-month period that ended in September with a $351 million operating loss — one of the worst in its 26-year history. Fiscal 2020’s losses work out to a negative 2.5% operating margin. The decrease is the largest in the hospital’s 26-year history, and nearly erases the gains the health system…

World War II veteran Major Wooten was released from the hospital on Monday after battling COVID-19.

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.

Moscow turned an ice rink into a hospital as Russia’s COVID-19 cases hit record numbers.

Computer experts at the University of Vermont Medical Center are working to restore systems disabled in a cyberattack that have hurt the hospital’s ability to provide some cancer treatments. Officials are working to expand the capacity to provide chemotherapy at the UVM Medical Center in Burlington to seven days per week and three evenings per week. They are also...

A person was taken to a local hospital after an apparent work-related incident at 100 Causeway Street, officials confirmed. A spokesperson for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said OSHA was informed of a worksite injury Friday morning and sent an inspector to the scene. The extent of the worker’s injuries is unclear. No further information was immediately available.

Boston area hospitals say they are preparing for a long winter as COVID-19 cases continue to spike in Massachusetts and across the globe. Over the past week alone, more than 4,000 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the state, including 1,226 over the weekend. The percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive, on average, is at 1.1%, compared to…

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a procedure to revise a bile duct stent Wednesday that was originally placed in August 2019.

Medical professionals in Alabama are witnessing two starkly different realities: Inside the hospitals, they attend to patients fighting for their lives in overcrowded intensive care units

The spread of the coronavirus is prompting soaring demand for oxygen.

Two West Virginia men who were born on the same day, in the same hospital, 24 years ago had their first babies on the same day and in the same hospital this week.

A 70-year-old man was released from the hospital after battling coronavirus for 34 days. As he left the hospital he got a heartwarming hug from his five-year-old grandson.

Feeding the Frontline: Harvard Gardens and Red Bull Thanks MGH Nurses with Free Bagged Lunches for National Nurses Day. NECN’s Derek Zagami has the story.

The Supreme Court justice received non-surgical treatment for a benign gall bladder condition Tuesday.

Due to the visitor restrictions in hospitals from the coronavirus, a Chicago man had to get creative when announcing his baby’s birth to the family.

Every day, COVID-19 patients are being discharged from hospitals across Massachusetts, and some have found special ways to celebrate. Stephanie Kim, 33, of Malden, spent four days at MelroseWakefield Hospital this week battling coronavirus. While she was getting through the worst of the infection, she kept hearing the same song play on the intercom. It was “Happy” by Pharrell. “At…