An estimated 69,000 to 84,000 Americans were hospitalized due to the flu in the last three months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The nation saw one of the worst flu outbreaks in nearly a decade during the 2017-2018 season, with more than 900,000 cases of hospitalizations and over 80,000 deaths, the CDC estimates
Tests revealed that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no additional cancer following her surgery in December, and no further treatment is needed. the Supreme Court announced Friday. “Justice Ginsburg will continue to work from home next week and will participate in the consideration and decision of the cases on the basis of the briefs and the transcripts of oral arguments,” court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement.
A man who attacked the computer network of a renowned hospital in Boston to protest the care of a teenager at the center of a high-profile custody battle was sentenced Thursday to more than 10 years in prison. Martin Gottesfeld said he has no regrets for the cyberattacks he orchestrated on Boston Children’s Hospital and a treatment home in 2014, which cost the facilities tens of thousands of dollars and disrupted operations for days.
Physician burnout in the U.S. is reaching epidemic levels, affecting the majority of physicians in some specialties. Instead, it's the most mundane part of their jobs that's driving them away from the profession.
Michael Stanley has worked as a physician’s assistant for the better part of two decades and seen around 65,000 patients during that time. But he has never written any of them a prescription for a controlled substance. Anywhere else in the country, Stanley would be able to prescribe medications if his supervising physician approved.
A DeQuincy doctor is accused of phoning in a fake shooting threat according to authorities, but the doctor says it wasn’t a prank, it was a misunderstanding. “On Monday at 10:47, DeQuincy Police Department received a report from the hospital stating they received a call that a man with a gun was coming to the hospital to shoot them,” DeQuincy Police Captain Tom Threet said.