Many patients living in rural areas don't have easy access to specialized or emergency care. When they face conditions like strokes, every minute counts when trying to get them the treatment they need.
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Five people were receiving emergency care in the French city of Tours on Tuesday with suspected botulism after ingesting a pesto sauce made with wild garlic, local authorities said.
Sep 10, 2024
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During a stroke, Black Americans arrive later to emergency departments—which are less likely to be notified of a patient's condition ahead of time, a national study shows.
Sep 10, 2024
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Samina Ali awoke with a start at 5 a.m. to the sound of her husband, Tim Graham, gasping for breath beside her. He was only 46 years old, but she knew immediately that his heart was in trouble.
Sep 9, 2024
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Patients who are being treated with systemic glucocorticoids are more than twice as likely to develop diabetes as those not receiving the treatment, the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ...
Sep 8, 2024
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Spending time with a medical clown can shorten the length of hospital stay for children with pneumonia, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria. They can also ...
Sep 8, 2024
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If you're lucky enough to survive a battle with the bloodstream infection sepsis, risks of a recurrence that sends you back to hospital within a month remain high, new data shows.
Sep 2, 2024
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There's an urgent need for more careful antibiotic management to protect older people living in residential aged care from the dangerous spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria or "superbugs," researchers from Flinders University ...
Aug 29, 2024
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Ed Whitehouse stood alongside a state highway in rural Butts County, Georgia, and surveyed acres of rolling fields and forests near Interstate 75. Instead of farmland and trees, he envisioned a hospital.
Aug 26, 2024
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Haywood Park Community Hospital was the closest hospital for many in Brownsville, Tennessee, a rural city in the western part of the state.
Aug 16, 2024
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