Dr. Andre Obua drove 18 hours from Miami to Terre Haute, Indiana. He pulled up to the home of a local kidney specialist and allegedly opened fire, striking the kidney doctor in the hand before being wrestled to the ground. The only thing more unexpected than the act of violence was the apparent motive. Accused in the shooting, which occurred one month after the brazen murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City, was Obua, a highly educated medical resident with a promising career. But Obua had become fixated on one of the least-understood corners in the big business of medicine — kidney dialysis.
The CDC reported 17 more measles cases Friday in its weekly update, bringing its total for the year to 1,214 confirmed cases from 36 jurisdictions. Although measles cases have slowed since peaking in late March, the uptick in cases brings the country closer to surpassing the 1,274 cases reported in 2019, which to date is the highest number reported in a single year since the disease was eliminated from the United States in 2020. There were 285 confirmed measles cases in 2024.
In a new study published June 20 in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and collaborators took a significant step toward understanding idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis—and numerous other complex diseases—with an algorithm that interprets disease data and proposes treatments.
Overall, the study found 37% of respondents experienced either verbal or emotional abuse on a daily basis while 56.6% experienced physical violence at some point while working with their current agency. Furthermore, 20% reported experiencing monthly occurrences of physical violence. In most cases, patients were the primary perpetrators.
A unique legal argument attaching a battery claim to a wrongful death case in civil court will no longer be among the claims jurors will be considering in the high-profile wrongful death case involving the 2021 death of a 19-year-old patient at an Ascension hospital in Appleton. Grace Schara, 19, died Oct. 13, 2021, seven days after she was admitted to Ascension NE Wisconsin-St. Elizabeth Hospital for symptoms of COVID-19. Scott Schara, her father, sued the hospital a year and a half later in a wrongful death case that includes claims of medical negligence, violation of informed consent and, initially, battery. The family argues Grace died from a drug overdose from precedex, lorazepam, morphine as a result of an illegal do not resuscitate order.