With ALS treatments, success is measured by extending patients’ lives by months. Some hope new drugs now being tested could slow the disease.
Author: Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
Discipline against bad doctors plummets amid COVID-19 – and more medical errors may slip through cracks
Patient safety advocates warn of a “perfect storm” of doctor shortages, stress and slow action by medical boards to discipline during the pandemic.
Being fit, losing weight is a powerful force against COVID-19 but cities have to do more
The annual ranking of the fittest U.S. cities, tracks with some of the cities that weathered COVID-19 better — but the reverse is also often true.
‘Deaths of despair’: Coronavirus pandemic could push suicide, drug overdose deaths above 100,000, study says
The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand mental health services for people suffering during the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 patients wrong to think breathing tubes ‘synonymous with death,’ doctors warn
The key to caring for patients on ventilators, who often have to remain intubated and connected to them for two weeks, is “profoundily simplistic,” said Harrell.
Tackling poverty in a coronavirus-induced economic downturn: Is it too risky or the right thing to do?
The social problems borne of poverty, including homelessness and trauma, are a key reason COVID-19 sickens and kills far more people of color.
How do health care staffers learn if co-workers have coronavirus? Word of mouth.
Employees say hospitals are misinterpreting privacy laws and government guidance on when and how to inform employees they’ve been exposed.
From New York City to St. Augustine, fever charting shows social distancing may be ‘breaking the chain’ of coronavirus infections
An analysis of some 1M digital thermometers show the number of people with flu-like illness dropped in places with strict social distancing orders.
Was the swine flu response in 2009 a ‘disaster’ as President Trump said?
President Trump blamed the Obama Administration Friday for completely botching its response to the 2009 outbreak of H1N1, known as swine flu.
That cushy work-at-home job can lead to social isolation, mental and physical health risks
Americans are getting lonelier and jeopardizing their health as more join the gig economy or skip the commute to an office, a new report says