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A Pittsburgh hospital may reportedly have been involved in “fraudulent billing practices” uncovered as President Donald Trump’s administration reviews medical facilities that provided transgender services to children.

A new study has revealed that at least 759 American hospitals experienced network disruptions during the CrowdStrike software crash one year ago, with more than 200 facing outages directly impacting patient care.

Engineers from software giant Oracle mistakenly triggered a five-day software outage at hospitals in the Community Health Systems system, forcing the facilities to temporarily revert to paper-based patient records. According to trade publication Becker’s Hospital Review, 45 hospitals were impacted by the epic tech blunder.

Several hospital systems in states around the U.S. have paused sex change drugs and surgeries for minors following an executive order from President Donald Trump on Jan. 28 barring the “destructive and life-altering procedures” for people under 19 years old.

Multiple international reports in the past week have indicated that hospitals in China are experiencing a surge in the number of patients facing pneumonia or other respiratory conditions, prompting the Chinese government to issue a public notice that traveling to the country is “safe” and the situation is typical for the dead of winter.

French authorities were hunting Tuesday for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital, with his parents identified as the chief suspects.

Former President Donald Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) says illegal immigration is crowding Americans out of the housing market while crippling resources at hospitals and public schools. 

Indian media outlets documented a marked rise this week in Google Internet searches for “rape video” and “rape porn” by users in the country, apparently seeking images of the brutal rape and killing of a doctor in a hospital seminar room.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is requiring hospitals in his state to ask about patients’ immigration status as he fights the Biden administration’s open border policies.

Florida’s healthcare spending on illegal migrants has been nearly cut in half since legislation now requires hospitals to track unpaid care given to illegal migrants.

Florida’s hospitals were hit with a massive $566 million loss just in 2024 from the costs of unpaid bills that illegal aliens incurred.

The constitution of the NHS will publicly declare that sex is a biological fact and that it must inform how and where patients are treated.

Illegal immigration is forcing a Denver hospital to turn away patients as illegal aliens overwhelm the system with unpaid medical bills.

The U.S. government is reportedly set to propose new rules requiring hospitals to adhere to basic cybersecurity standards to qualify for federal funding.

The High Court also agreed to hear the case in April, which surrounds the Biden administration’s attempt to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions under its new interpretation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA). 

The mask mandate has gone back into effect at all 11 of New York City’s public hospitals following a rise in reported cases of the coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Israel’s Army Radio reported Tuesday that the manager of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza told interrogators that Hamas terrorists had commandeered the hospital and forced staff to do its bidding, believing that the IDF would not strike there.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Saturday that Israeli troops had discovered weapons inside incubators in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the Kamal Adwan hospital — a war crime and a revelation of the hospital’s dual role in the war.

A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing an overnight evacuation.

Hospitals in China are expanding study areas so that children diagnosed with respiratory diseases can keep up with schoolwork, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday, in response to a growing wave of pneumonia in children believed to be exacerbated by years of coronavirus lockdowns.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported hospitals are bracing for a surge of respiratory infections among the elderly, beginning in mid-December and peaking “around New Year’s Day in 2024.”

Chinese state newspaper Global Times acknowledged a surge in respiratory disease in the country, particularly among children, which has alarmed international observers – but blamed it on an “immunity gap” in the population, caused by China’s brutal “zero-covid” lockdowns.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a video Monday night showing evidence that the Palestinian Hamas terror organization used the Al-Rantisi Hospital for Children in western Gaza to house weapons and perhaps hostages.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield told him that Hamas does have tunnels under hospitals, but “when you have a hospital full of

Chinese officials are once again telling the public to wear masks as various respiratory diseases surge alongside a rise in coronavirus cases.

Multiple news outlets reported on Monday that the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Hamas-controlled Gaza was closed.

The Israel Defense Forces and foreign news organizations revealed Hamas is keeping vast stockpiles of fuel for itself in Gaza.

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) announced a “sweeping and more vigorous than ever” campaign against corruption in Chinese health care this week, allegedly intended to eradicate widespread bribery and kickback schemes in medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and academia.

The illegal alien population in the U.S. is nearly 17 million, an increase of more than two million since Biden took office, an analysis reveals.

Illegal aliens released into the United States interior are costing American taxpayers, and the public hospitals they help fund, billions in unpaid medical bills every year, a report from Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee details.

Hospitals along the United States-Mexico border are so packed with pregnant migrant women that American women are being forced to delay their scheduled deliveries, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says.

Sudan’s Radio Dabanga reported on Monday that churches, mosques, and hospitals in the capital city of Khartoum were attacked over the weekend as the war between two factions of the ruling military junta continued.

A new Florida law allows healthcare workers to exercise “conscience-based objections” based on sincerely held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.

The president and CEO of the primary hospital in Yuma, Arizona, warned Thursday the hospital had been overrun by migrants and that it could not afford to continue providing what he said has amounted to tens of millions of dollars in unpaid medical care.

Twenty-five people are facing criminal charges in a scheme out of Southern Florida that allegedly sold 7,600 fake nursing diplomas for more than $100 million, Forbes reported on Tuesday.

More than 7,000 unionized nurses walked off the job Monday at two of New York City’s largest hospitals after negotiations stalled over the weekend.