Allegheny Health Network plans to close the inpatient unit at its tiny hospital in New York in exchange for higher Medicare reimbursement to address the financial pressures that virtually all rural hospitals in the U.S. are facing.
People with diabetes who were taking GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs such as tirzepatide and semaglutide had significantly lower rates of hospital readmission, wound re-opening and hematoma after surgery, according to a large study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian.
Research led by the University of California, Los Angeles, shows that conventional imaging may not be able to correctly assess prostate cancer patients whose cancer has metastasized and spread to other areas of the body.
The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has died, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. This is the first human death from bird flu in the US.
The U.S. has recorded its first death of a person infected with bird flu. The patient was a resident of southwest Louisiana who was hospitalized last month with the first known severe case of bird flu in the country. On Monday, the Louisiana Department of Health said the person had died from the illness but shared few other details because of patient privacy rules. The patient was over 65 and had underlying medical conditions.
Coaching inexperienced clinicians within an hour of intubating an infant significantly improved success rates. The coached group placed the breathing tube in the infant's windpipe on the first attempt over 91% of the time, compared to nearly 82% in the control group.