Patients visiting emergency departments for dehydration or nausea are half as likely to receive IV fluids now than they were before Hurricane Helene exacerbated supply shortages. When the storm hit western North Carolina last month, flooding and other damage halted production at Baxter's North Cove facility, which provides about 60% of IV fluids to hospitals across the U.S. The disruptions have led to multiple new shortages.
At Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine, a digital transformation is equipping clinicians with tools to analyze data and unlock critical insights for patient care. This advancement has the potential to enhance diagnoses and treatments and improve overall patient outcomes.
Masking is an effective way to reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses in healthcare settings. These latest guidelines re-affirm the importance of the health and safety of patients and employees, particularly for those who are at high risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory illnesses.
Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people revoking organ donor registrations, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead. It happened in 2021 and while details are murky surgery was avoided and the man is still alive. But donor registries in the U.S. and even across the Atlantic are being impacted after the case was publicized recently. A drop in donations could cost the lives of people awaiting a transplant.
Dozens of volunteer doctors, nurses and psychologists traveled to the region to treat people whose routines, including medical appointments, were disrupted by the storm. Several hospitals in both North Carolina and Tennessee remain closed, including one in Erwin, Tenn., where dozens of patients and staff members had to be rescued on the day the storm hit. In western North Carolina, some hospitals are still relying on bottled water or mobile water units.
When compared to seven other anti-diabetic drugs, semaglutide may significantly lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease in people with type 2 diabetes, according to new research from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.