For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits
Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.
Oct 23, 2023
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Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.
Oct 23, 2023
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Being young or Black may make it more likely that you wind up in an emergency room with an assault injury, new research suggests.
Oct 12, 2023
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Changes in how COVID-19 vaccines are paid for has already caused some confusion for the first recipients who rushed to take a shot.
Sep 22, 2023
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Carotid artery disease occurs when the blood vessels supplying your brain and head, known as carotid arteries, are damaged or blocked by fatty deposits. These deposits contain cholesterol that organizes as a plaque, which ...
Sep 20, 2023
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The pain from a heart attack is so bad that—if you can imagine—it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of ...
Sep 18, 2023
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An artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the University of Rochester can help people with Parkinson's disease remotely assess the severity of their symptoms within minutes. A study in npj Digital Medicine ...
Sep 7, 2023
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Several major childhood allergies may all stem from the community of bacteria living in our gut, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and BC Children's Hospital.
Aug 29, 2023
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New COVID-19 booster shots, reworked to target variants circulating now, could be available by mid-September.
Aug 25, 2023
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When 20-year-old Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce died of "sudden unexpected death in epilepsy" (known as SUDEP) in 2019, his parents had not even heard of the condition.
Aug 17, 2023
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Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers.
Aug 8, 2023
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