Tag: patients
Congenital heart disease patients face new threat of heart failure
When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been…
Poor hospice wound care hurts patients and families
A few years ago, I worked with a patient close to 100 years old. She had diabetes for most of…
Can magic mushrooms help dying patients?
Sixty years after Harvard fired Timothy Leary over his experiments with psychedelic drugs, a hospital affiliated with the university has…
Kidney transplant patients stopped immunosuppressants in trial
Kidney transplants are the most common organ transplant procedure in the U.S., with 25,000 taking place in 2022. But for…
Testing for cancer recurrence creates a new limbo for patients
My husband’s cancer came back this summer after not being evident for almost two years. With advances in cancer surveillance,…
New study gives hope to patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms
Patient Global Impression of Change at follow-up, in percent. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102262 Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are…
‘Abortion queen’ wants patients to pay something for the procedure
BRISTOL, Va. — Stephanie Rosenwinge was excited to work for the queen of abortion. She’d grown up in rural Virginia…
Emergency workers more likely to restrain Black patients: study
In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints…