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pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Patients are being evacuated from Gaza’s second-largest hospital, which has been under attack from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. At least 14 patients have been moved from Nasser Hospital — located in the southern city of Khan Younis — with the help of the World […]
fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of patients in the U.S. traveling out of state to obtain abortion care has doubled since 2020. Nearly one in five patients in the first half of 2023 traveled to other states for abortion care, compared to one in 10 patients traveling out of state in 2020, according […]
skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two Illinois patients have successfully undergone double-lung transplants after being born with “flipped organs.” Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer, 50, and Yahaira Vega, 27, both have a rare genetic condition known as situs inversus, in which organs in the chest and abdomen developed reversed or mirrored from their normal positions. […]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ATLANTA) — Patients with HIV in the United States saw an increase in rare, deadly meningococcal infections last year, new preliminary data shows. Nearly 10% of all meningococcal disease cases in 2022 were among people with HIV, according to a report published Thursday afternoon by the Centers for Disease […]
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Patients and medical providers who rely on pharmaceutical medications to treat everything from asthma to ADHD to cancer may have had a harder time finding those medications last year than in years past, a new Senate report released Wednesday finds. The report, issued by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]
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