Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have used a cutting-edge model system to uncover the mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, induces new cases of diabetes, and worsens complications in people who already have it.
Improved safety practices led 200,000 more patients to survive hospitalization in 2023 and 2024 than they would have four years earlier, per a new analysis on patient safety from the AHA and Vizient. The analysis indicates not only a rebound but an improvement in hospital safety after the pandemic, when federal data previously showed a decline.
The most recent data from the CDC shows that last month nearly half of the United States have reported 'very high' levels of COVID-19 activity. As concerns with COVID have waned across the U.S., the CDC has come to rely on wastewater data to track the virus, which often lags several weeks behind current case counts. Data collected between Aug. 25 and Aug. 31 by the CDC showed that 23 states have reported 'very high' levels of wastewater viral activity nationwide. The data was published on Sept. 5.
It is paramount that we establish laws to protect our hospitals and local health-care delivery systems. If profit-seeking organizations are allowed to continue buying hospitals and their related health-care networks, then the people of Connecticut will suffer the loss of vital local care and opportunities for good-paying health care jobs.
After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons for today's psychedelic Renaissance.
AI outperforms individual clinicians in diagnostic tasks, especially in pattern recognition and image analysis. Human collaboration remains superior for complex cases, where collective expertise outperforms AI. AI should complement, not replace, human clinicians, offering a promising future for healthcare synergy.