besthealtharticle.com
Home »
When triple-digit temperatures hit the Pacific Northwest this summer, the emergency room at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center was ill prepared. Doctors raced to treat heat-aggravated illness in homeless people, elderly patients with chronic ailments, and overdosing narcotics users. “The magnitude of the exposure, this was so far off the charts in terms of our historical […]
As patients stream into Mississippi hospitals one after another, doctors and nurses have become all too accustomed to the rampant denial and misinformation about COVID-19 in the nation’s least vaccinated state. People in denial about the severity of their own illness or the virus itself, with visitors frequently trying to enter hospitals without masks. The […]
Why are hospitals turning a blind eye to racist patients who demand a white doctor? The disturbing testimony of a top paediatrician who has been a victim – but now says: ‘No more’ Dr Zeshan Qureshi graduated in 2009 and has enjoyed a diverse medical career At hospital, a man once lunged at him and […]
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The scientific evidence for airborne transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from different researchers all point in the same direction — that infectious aerosols are the principal means of person-to-person transmission, according to experts. Not that it’s without controversy. The science backing aerosol transmission […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The second surge of COVID-19 cases in India has swamped hospitals much faster than the first because mutations in the virus mean each patient is infecting many more people than before, epidemiologists and doctors say. India’s daily infections skyrocketed more than 20-fold to more than 200,000 on Thursday since a multi-month-low […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday warned that Washington state was on the cusp of a fourth COVID-19 wave with case numbers and hospitalizations rising. He urged people to get vaccinated and to socialize and conduct business […]
As COVID-19 cases surged last December, 100 seriously ill patients streamed into the ER of Martin Luther King Jr Community Hospital (MLKCH) in south Los Angeles every day. Staff at the 131-bed safety net hospital erected five tents outside the ER — and converted the gift shop and lobby into an overflow area — to […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. An independent data monitoring committee is recommending stopping enrollment of a phase 3 trial of a monoclonal antibody for COVID-19 because interim results indicate an 85% (P = .002) reduction in hospitalizations or death, two companies have announced. Vir Biotechnology and […]
The United States spends more on health care than any other nation. What many people don’t realize is that a large portion of this spending goes to waste. Every year, an estimated US$760 billion to $935 billion is wasted through overtreatment, poor coordination and other failures, amounting to about a quarter of total U.S. health […]
Hospital emergency departments (EDs) not only care for patients with overdose and other complications from opioid use, but they also serve as vital touch points to engage patients into longer-term treatment. After an overdose, patients are at risk for repeat overdose and death. Pennsylvania is unique in establishing a voluntary incentive program to improve the […]