There is no cure for Parkinson's, and over one million people have the disease in the United States alone. However, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been used to treat this and other neurological disorders for more than 30 years. DBS is similar to a cardiac pacemaker, but a stimulator is implanted in the brain.
This month, the Yale New Haven Health System announced the Health AI Championship, a competition that offers funding for proposals using AI to address healthcare challenges.
The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child. The child was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock, Texas. Officials did not answer questions regarding the patient's specific age, any other health issues, or details about the patient's schooling in a press conference jointly hosted by Covenant Health and the City of Lubbock Public Health on Wednesday.This is the first US measles death since 2015, when a woman in Washington state died.
The number of confirmed measles cases reported in an outbreak in West Texas is now at 124, the Texas Department of Health Services said in an update Tuesday, an increase of 34 since late last week. Most of the cases are in children ages 5 to 17.
Three people were taken to a hospital after a medical helicopter crashed in a wooded area near a North Carolina airport, officials said. The three team members who were on the AirLink helicopter on Monday night were taken for evaluation. No patients were on board, Novant Health said. The team consisted of a pilot, a critical care registered nurse and a critical care paramedic. They were in fair condition Tuesday evening. The Eurocopter EC-135 helicopter crashed near Wilmington International Airport around 7:50 p.m., the FAA said. The helicopter had left Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington to return to its base at Albert J. Ellis Airport in the Richlands area of Onslow County.
An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases. These "hemorrhagic fever" symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far. The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on Jan. 21, with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths.
A shooting this weekend at a York hospital that killed a police officer and wounded five others, coupled with three separate attacks in Scranton hospitals within the past week, highlight the rising violence against U.S. health care workers and the challenge of protecting them.