Desperate for heart surgery for their baby, a family feels the effects of pediatric hospital shortages
Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery. Doctors expected her to have an operation
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‘We travel 530 miles so our son can have a haircut’
How a very special hairdressing salon in Lowestoft is cutting it when it comes to neurodivergence.
Flesh-eating bug made my skin look like roadkill
Caroline Fonjock says she owes her life to the medics who quickly diagnosed and treated her.
A blast from the past: The “interstitium,” the inspiration for that recent awful NYT acupuncture article
I’m on vacation this week and decided to repost a 2018 article that I had written for my other blog (but never published on SBM)
RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she
RSV hospitalization rate for seniors is 10 times higher than usual for this point in the season
The respiratory virus season has started early in kids this year and flooded children’s hospitals in many parts of the country — especially with respiratory
Covid-19 boosters could keep thousands of kids out of hospitals, but uptake remains low
Higher Covid-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to an analysis published Tuesday
Traveler might have exposed many to measles in Massachusetts
A visitor from Texas who was afflicted with measles might have exposed many to the airborne virus while in Massachusetts, health officials announced.
CDC links raw oysters to 64 salmonella cases in 22 states
The CDC said it’s investigating the possibility that the consumption of raw oysters may have infected 64 people across 22 states with salmonella.
JMIR articles address AI clinical decision-making and health care worker burnout
JMIR Publications released two feature stories in its News and Perspectives section. Shalini Kathuria Narang’s “Can Humanlike Reasoning Be Replicated in Large Language Models for
Real-time brain stimulation improves gait for Parkinson’s patients
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a new form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that adjusts in real time as a person walks, helping improve
Tirzepatide activates calorie-burning brown fat to combat obesity
Tirzepatide doesn’t just help people lose weight; it also activates brown adipose tissue, representing a major milestone in obesity research, according to a study being
Backed by Threat of Clawbacks, Feds Wield Tight Grip on $50B Rural Health Fund
In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a slice of $190 million in new federal rural health funding to shield hospitals and clinics from
Heart tissue repair drug may also help repair and regenerate damaged kidney tissues
A drug previously developed at UCLA to help heart tissue repair itself after a heart attack might also help kidney tissue repair and regenerate, researchers