Inside this hospital in Lanham, Md., there are more covid-19 patients than at any other point in the pandemic. Doctors and nurses are being pushed to the brink.

A new study of hospital patients found that those treated by women physicians were less likely to die or end up back in the hospital than those who received medical care from male doctors.

The doctors walked off the job earlier this week, in the first strike by New York City hospital doctors in more than 30 years. Their union reached a deal with Mount Sinai, which employs them, on ...