December 16, 2024
(Undark) – When providing health care for new immigrants and refugees, the world’s faraway conflicts fall sharply into focus. I work in a clinic in Toronto that largely serves patients who are newcomers to our country, many of whom are … Read More
November 26, 2024
(New York Times) – Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East. Nations of the Middle East, like Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, now suffer from particularly high rates … Read More
November 26, 2024
(New York Times Magazine) – Ours is a hyperconnected world, a place where it’s strange not to walk around with an internet-connected recording device in your pocket. When something big or new or scary happens — something like the natural … Read More
November 19, 2024
(NPR) – Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid bags to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether. Hurricane Helene, which hit … Read More
November 8, 2024
(Reuters via MSN) – At least 73 people have died of mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of al-Hilaliya, besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Sudanese Doctors Union said late on Wednesday. It is one of dozens of … Read More
November 6, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Drone attacks have made any time outdoors in the city, even a cigarette break, potentially deadly. ‘Run for shelter.’ Russian drones are hunting civilians in Kherson, unleashing a new kind of terror on Ukraine’s largest front-line … Read More
October 30, 2024
(NPR) – Canceled surgeries have been a problem for patients around the country in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The storm flooded a Baxter International factory in North Carolina that was making 60% of the national supply of IV fluids, … Read More
October 29, 2024
(NPR) – Ivana is one of 22 patients being treated in the burn unit of the Geitaoui Hospital in Beirut. It’s a private medical center with theonly burn unit in Lebanon. Only the most critically injured victims are transferred to … Read More
October 29, 2024
(New York Times) – Dozens of volunteer doctors, nurses and psychologists traveled to the region to treat people whose routines, including medical appointments, were disrupted by the storm. Even before the storm sent floodwaters raging through this slice of mountainous … Read More
October 25, 2024
(New York Times) – Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases. More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this … Read More
October 22, 2024
(Axios) – IV fluids from as far away as China are being imported to the U.S. to alleviate nationwide shortages stemming from hurricane damage to a key manufacturing plant in North Carolina. Why it matters: Hospitals now have 50% more … Read More
October 22, 2024
(NPR) – Khmil says not only have doctors and patients been displaced because of the fighting, the conflict has also put the fundamental building blocks to make life at risk. “Many of [the doctors] evacuated with sperm, eggs and equipment,” … Read More
October 21, 2024
(New York Times) – After Hurricane Helene Hit, a group of doctors and nurses quikly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care. (Watch Video Here)
October 21, 2024
(CNN) – Florida has seen a recent increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria following the devastating hurricanes Helene and Milton, according to state health department data. The Tampa Bay-area counties of Hillsborough and Pinellas – which were inundated by … Read More
October 18, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Trumble is among 25,000 U.S. patients whose survival depends on parenteral nutrition, or PN — IV bags containing life-sustaining amino acids, sugars, fats, vitamins, and electrolytes. Hurricane Helene wrecked a factory in North Carolina that produced … Read More
October 17, 2024
(Fast Company) – During Helene and Milton, the AI tool I used most—AI RI—was developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin. It gives updated hourly odds on the chances of a nascent hurricane going through a bout of rapid … Read More
October 17, 2024
(Associated Press) – Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. Aid groups say the number of people seeking care has spiked as fighting intensifies. Some of the worst affected struggle to survive in cramped, … Read More
October 16, 2024
(CBS News) – The Biden administration says it has invoked the wartime powers of the Defense Production Act to speed rebuilding of a major American factory of intravenous fluids that was wrecked by Hurricane Helene last month. Damage to the … Read More
October 15, 2024
(Associated Press) – Federal disaster personnel have resumed door-to-door visits as part of their hurricane-recovery work in North Carolina, an effort temporarily suspended amid threats that prompted officials to condemn the spread of disinformation. Over the weekend, reports emerged that … Read More
October 14, 2024
(Associated Press) – Federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats that they could be targeted by a militia, officials said, as the government response to … Read More
October 14, 2024
(Ars Technica) – In the poll, 88 percent of providers said they were receiving less than half of their requested orders, and about 54 percent said their supplies were down to 10 days or less, which is below the typical … Read More
October 10, 2024
(The Guardian) – The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children has described a “catastrophic situation” as Israeli forces launched new ground assaults and airstrikes in the north and centre … Read More
October 10, 2024
(New York Times) – The Daytona Beach plant that makes nearly a quarter of the IV fluids used in the United States is intact in the wake of Hurricane Milton’s tear across Florida, according to a company spokeswoman. The site, … Read More
October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – The F.D.A. has authorized shipments from overseas plants to ease shortages of IV bags caused by Hurricane Helene as hospitals begin rationing fluids to protect the sickest patients. U.S. officials approved airlifts of IV fluids from … Read More
October 9, 2024
(New York Times) – Hospitals and nursing homes in Florida have plenty of experience with hurricanes, but officials are aware that Milton may bring more damage than past storms. Healthcare facilities across the west coast of Florida, from clinics to … Read More
