Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

No sign latest COVID variant leads to worse symptoms

JN.1, the COVID variant sweeping the country this winter, is not prompting more severe disease than earlier variants did, early U.S. government data suggests.

Medical economics

Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum

Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: He could boost his rural hospital's revenues by offering hip replacements and shoulder surgeries, ...

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