Babies born with syphilis, a bacteria, contract it from their mothers. Already this year, North Carolina has seen five stillbirths and neonatal deaths due to congenital syphilis.
An estimated 450 patients at Salem Hospital may have been exposed to the HIV virus and two strains of the hepatitis virus when staff used a medically inferior process to deliver medication intravenously during endoscopic examinations, the hospital said.
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a tool that makes it possible to measure 21 biomarkers for cardiovascular disease simultaneously with great precision by means of a simple blood test.
Without an adequate system to replenish the physician workforce, we are on track to decimate this critical resource beyond recovery in the coming years.