Leah Rethy News Today

Doctors and medical residents work long, irregular hours, often up to 80 hours a week. For many, their demanding schedules overlap with life.

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Part of a national trend, medical residents at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia push to form a union to demand better working conditions and higher wages. Child care is an important issue for many.

NPR reports on difficulties facing medical residents across the country which are helping drive staff to join unions, with a goal of improving working conditions. Also, a maternal care desert in suburban Philadelphia, words from the former surgeon general Jerome Adams on public health, and more.

Part of a national trend, medical residents at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia push to form a union to demand better working conditions and higher wages. Child care is an important issue for many.

Dr. Leah Rethy was pregnant during the first year of her internal medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Residents at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania Hospital have joined a growing number of physician unionization efforts.

A new Northwestern Medicine study published in Circulation Heart Failure has found almost half of U.S. adults with heart failure have poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes — two common conditions among patients with heart failure.

Many people with heart failure also have diabetes or high blood pressure. But new...