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PhotoAlto/Ale Ventura/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals in the U.S. are seeing an increase in RSV and higher levels of “walking pneumonia” among young children despite overall respiratory illness activity remaining low nationally. Cook Children’s Medical Centers in Texas reported a “steep increase” in children visiting the emergency room due to respiratory-related illnesses. On […]
pablohart/Getty Images (TAMPA, Fla.) — Hospitals, emergency departments and health care facilities across Florida are reopening after they evacuated patients and canceled elective surgeries due to Hurricane Milton. BayCare health care system said some of its ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, laboratories, urgent care facilities and medical group offices are opening on Friday, according to […]
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals across the United States are reinstating indoor masking rules amid rising cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses including COVID-19 and influenza. Hospitals in at least six states — California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin — have put masking guidelines in place, according to an ABC News […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hospitals in central and southern Gaza are at a “breaking point” and struggling to care for the influx of patients amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Doctors Without Borders and the World Health Organization say. Two hospitals — Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza and Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza — are […]
AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals in Gaza are in a “dire and perilous” situation, the World Health Organization says, and two — the Al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals — have been forced to stop operations amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Dr. Tedros Adhanom […]
Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images (GAZA) — Hospitals in Gaza are in a dire situation as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, putting the lives of civilians and health care workers at risk. Doctors say health care facilities are overcrowded, with workers dealing with a lack of supplies to treat patients. One aid group further said […]
MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weekly COVID hospitalizations have been ticking up over the past 11 weeks, rising to 20,538 for the week ending Sept. 9, the highest figures seen since March of this year. Although the majority of U.S. counties are reporting low hospital admissions levels, a growing number are seeing moderate and […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated federal law last summer when they refused to provide an emergency abortion to a woman who went into premature labor at nearly 18 weeks and risked developing a life-threatening infection, according to initial findings in a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare […]
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