Twenty-one hospitals have closed in Missouri in the past 10 years, many in rural areas. Residents now must drive long distances for care, or make the decision that it's just not worth traveling until the pain is too great or the symptoms too strong to ignore.
More than 10,000 measles cases, 18 of them fatal, have been reported across 10 countries in the Americas this year, with the pace of infections 34 times higher than a year ago, the Pan American Health Organization says, urging countries to step up their vaccination, surveillance, and outbreak responses. In a news release, PAHO said the outbreaks are mainly linked to low vaccination coverage, with 89% of cases occurring in people who are unvaccinated or have unknown vaccination status.
A patient who died in February after calling for help in a Mission Hospital emergency department bathroom went 29 minutes with no response as multiple staff members passed by the door with a call light flashing above. By the time an employee entered the bathroom, the 54-year-old patient was slumped in a wheelchair, unresponsive, his heart no longer beating.
Doctors treating kidney disease have long depended on trial-and-error to find the best therapies for individual patients. Now, new artificial intelligence tools developed by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania can analyze kidney disease at the cellular level to match the most effective treatments and speed up solutions.
The University of Colorado Housestaff Association, which represents medical and surgical residents and fellows, has filed a complaint with state labor officials.
The VA has lost thousands of healthcare professionals deemed 'core' to the system's ability to function and 'without which mission-critical work cannot be completed,' agency records show. But the VA says that 'anyone who says VA is cutting healthcare and benefits is not being honest.'