How Indigenous knowledge helped solve a mysterious outbreak
When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...
Frontiers23d
Incidence rate of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome complicated with acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis
Studies involving HFRS patients diagnosed using one or more of the following criteria: positive serum-specific IgM or a fourfold increase in serum-specific IgG between the acute and recovery phases, ...
Health Affairs28d
The Case For Multilingual Patient Engagement
Patient engagement in direct care, organizational design and governance, and policy making is critical to improving health care quality, efficiency, and population health. A growing body of ...
Medscape8d
Recent Approaches in Hantavirus Vaccine Development
Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore25d
In Pictures: Palliative care nurses give a peek into their work journeying with patients at the last mile
In Pictures accompanied three palliative healthcare workers as they went about their task of caring for patients with life-limiting conditions. They talked about the relationships they have ...
Reuters7d
Over 100 patients set to be evacuated from Gaza, WHO says
GENEVA, Nov 5 (Reuters) - More than 100 patients including children will be transferred out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a rare medical evacuation from the Palestinian enclave during the ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation14d
Plastic surgeon who patients say left them with 'disfigurement' found guilty of professional misconduct
A hearing next month will determine whether Dr Amjadi’s misconduct was serious enough for his registration to be suspended or cancelled. A Sydney plastic surgeon has been found guilty of ...
BBC29d
NHS patient-safety system to be overhauled
The way patient safety is regulated and monitored is to be completely overhauled in England, the health secretary has announced. Wes Streeting said the current system was "overly complex", as he ...
The Washington Post28d
Six people sought new organs. They ended up with HIV.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian health officials are scrambling to explain how six transplant patients in the country’s well-regarded public health system received organs infected with HIV — and ...
The New York Times27d
My Patients Are Children. Dobbs Forced Me to Leave Them Behind.
And I’ve talked to dozens of people — patients, doctors, advocates. All of their lives have changed because of this ruling. One woman’s story in particular really struck me. Her name is Dr ...
ConsumerAffairs15d
Many Medicare patients can't afford a single hospital visit
A new study found that many people on Medicare with low to moderate incomes don't have enough money to pay for a hospital visit. Medicare helps older people pay for healthcare, but it doesn't ...