Their First Baby Came With Medical Debt. These Illinois Parents Won’t Have Another. Noam N. Levey JACKSONVILLE, Ill. — Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high […]

  Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One. Phil Galewitz HOUSTON — Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care. The […]

  Three People Shot at Super Bowl Parade Grapple With Bullets Left in Their Bodies Bram Sable-Smith and Peggy Lowe, KCUR James Lemons, 39, wants the bullet removed from his thigh so he can go back to work. Sarai Holguin, a 71-year-old woman originally from Mexico, has accepted the bullet lodged near her knee as […]

Amgen Plows Ahead With Costly, Highly Toxic Cancer Dosing Despite FDA Challenge Arthur Allen When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary. Crosslin started the drug that July. His tumors shrank, then stabilized. But […]

  Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm Judith Graham Originally Published May 6, 2024 Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises. Even when physicians […]

  Bird Flu Is Bad for Poultry and Dairy Cows. It’s Not a Dire Threat for Most of Us — Yet. Amy Maxmen Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have detected the virus among cattle in nine states, […]

  DIY Gel Manicures May Harm Your Health Tarena Lofton A fresh set from the comfort of your own home? DIY gel nails have been all the rage on social media, but the practice could cause you to develop a life-changing allergy. In a TikTok video, creator @alina.gene describes developing an acrylate allergy from doing […]

  Toxic Gas Adds to a Long History of Pollution in Southwest Memphis Andy Miller Originally Published April 30, 2024 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern […]

  Sign Here? Financial Agreements May Leave Doctors in the Driver’s Seat Katheryn Houghton Cass Smith-Collins jumped through hoops to get the surgery that would match his chest to his gender. Living in Las Vegas and then 50, he finally felt safe enough to come out as a transgender man. He had his wife’s support […]

  Exposed to Agent Orange at US Bases, Veterans Face Cancer Without VA Compensation Hannah Norman, KFF Health News and Patricia Kime As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now […]