More than 100 people at OHSU Hospital worked to help an unvaccinated Oregon boy survive when he contracted life-threatening tetanus on the family farm. Not one of them had ever seen a child with the bacterial disease before.
Each year, U.S. News & World Report ranks the best medical schools in the country based on variables such as peer assessments, amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants funds awarded and faculty-to-student ratio.
Although federal law prohibits health insurance plans from discriminating against transgender individuals, the plan adopted by Houston County specifically excludes trans-related health care from coverage.
The appearance of symptoms—a breast lump, blood in the stool, chest pain, and the like—were once the first signs of disease. Today, the search for illness, and with it the possibility of early intervention, is becoming increasingly proactive and moving beyond screening tests such as mammography, colonoscopy, and cholesterol measurement. ...
"I want this case to send a message to physicians and the health care community," U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a statement. "Unlawfully distributing opioids and other controlled substances is a federal crime that could end a medical career and send an offender to prison."
A gunman who fired his weapon outside of a Phoenix health care facility where an incapacitated patient gave birth last year was shot Monday by an officer, police said. Three officers working privately for Hacienda HealthCare found a man in the parking lot of one of its facilities in Phoenix holding a gun and standing over a woman who was on the ground, said Phoenix Police spokesman Sgt. Armando Carbajal.