by News Feed Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | Health
ReutersThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human body is made of a wide variety of...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | Health
When Anna Nusslock showed up at her local hospital 15 weeks pregnant and in severe pain earlier this year, she said, a doctor delivered devastating news: The twins she and her husband had so desperately wanted were not viable. Further, her own health was in danger,...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | Health
OAKLAND, Calif. — The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well above the 88% blood oxygen saturation level that signals an urgent risk of organ failure and death. Yet his doctor, Noha...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | Health
While hot-button health care issues such as abortion and the Affordable Care Act roil the presidential race, Democrats and Republicans in statehouses around the country have been quietly working together to tackle the nation’s medical debt crisis. New laws to curb...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 7, 2024 | Health
FamilyA woman who was treated by jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson died before questions emerged over her surgery and the secondary cancer that followed, her husband said.Catherine Coyne’s death is one of 62 being investigated in inquests opening in Birmingham into...
by News Feed Editor | Oct 5, 2024 | Health
Imogen TurnbowTwo victims of spiking have criticised how medical staff handled their cases, saying they felt “blamed” for what happened and were refused tests. Imogen Turnbow and Saraya Haddad, both former students in Brighton, said they were denied drug...
