Colorado mom undergoes rare half-birth surgery to save baby's life
When the anesthesiologist put Angelica Vance under for her cesarean section, she had no way of knowing what she'd encounter when she woke.
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Animal tranquilizers found in illegal opioids may suppress the lifesaving medication naloxone
The animal tranquilizers xylazine and medetomidine are in approximately one-third of the illegal opioids available in the U.S., including fentanyl, heroin and oxycodone. Animal tranquilizers enhance the user's euphoric high ...
Apr 7, 2025
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Study links intense energy bursts to ventilator-induced lung injury
A new study from Tulane University suggests that repeated collapse and reopening of tiny alveoli—air sacs in the lungs essential for breathing—during mechanical ventilation may cause microscopic tissue damage, playing a key ...
Mar 3, 2025
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Severe flu season raises concerns about brain complications in kids
As this year's severe flu season rages across the country, federal health officials are investigating a rise in rare but life-threatening brain complications in children.
Feb 28, 2025
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New study highlights need for better care to prevent lung problems after abdominal surgery
A new study, published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, has tested whether a set of interventions to keep lungs expanded before, during, and after abdominal surgery could lower the risk of serious breathing problems ...
Feb 25, 2025
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Bottling a mouse 'superpower' may heal lungs damaged by premature birth
Understanding resilience—the ability of injured lung tissue to heal and regenerate—may be key to advancing the treatment and prevention of life-threatening lung disease that occurs in extremely premature babies, a new study ...
Feb 24, 2025
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Study identifies ventilation strategies to prevent super-spreader events aboard cruise ships
Cruise ships became known as coronavirus hotspots during the pandemic, causing most liners to suspend operations for months on end. To help the industry build resilience against any future health threats, new research from ...
Jan 15, 2025
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More than half of psychedelic-related poison center cases result in medical treatment, study finds
More than half of psychedelic exposures reported to poison centers across the U.S. between 2012 and 2022 had symptoms that required medical treatment or resulted in residual or prolonged symptoms or death, according to a ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Study: Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalized with COVID are almost three times more likely to die
Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others. When children were assessed separately, the risk for mortality among those with multiple ...
Oct 16, 2024
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Disability rights activist pushes government to let him participate in society
Garret Frey refuses to be sidelined. Frey has been paralyzed from the neck down for more than 37 of his 42 years. He has spent decades rejecting the government's excuses when he and others with disabilities are denied the ...
Sep 3, 2024
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