Health
A mom's $97,000 question: How was her baby's air-ambulance ride not medically necessary?
Sara England was putting together Ghostbusters costumes for Halloween when she noticed her baby wasn't doing well.
Mar 28, 2024
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Health
COVID and Medicare payments spark remote patient BP monitoring boom
Billy Abbott, a retired Army medic, wakes at 6 every morning, steps on the bathroom scale, and uses a cuff to take his blood pressure.
Mar 28, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New and improved drug to counter spinal anesthesia blues during C-sections
Today, deliveries via cesarean sections (or c-sections) have become quite common globally. Sometimes, c-sections are a medical necessity when normal deliveries become risky either for the mother or the baby. At other times, ...
May 7, 2021
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Survey: OB-GYNs remain conflicted about abortion, but pills may be changing attitudes
With the national abortion debate entering a new stage, a survey of U.S. obstetricians and gynecologists has found that while nearly 3 out of 4 had a patient who wanted to end a pregnancy in the past year, fewer than 1 in ...
Feb 11, 2019
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Autism spectrum disorders
Study links autism severity to genetics, ultrasound
For children with autism and a class of genetic disorders, exposure to diagnostic ultrasound in the first trimester of pregnancy is linked to increased autism severity, according to a study by researchers at UW Medicine, ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Opinion: What should be covered by publicly funded health care?
All across Canada, provincial governments are grappling with ever-growing health-care demands in the face of shrinking resources. Our enviable publicly funded health system is now well into a downward spiral of unenviable ...
May 16, 2016
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