January 8, 2025
(NPR) – “We woke up from bombs being dropped on the military base two blocks away [from our home],” says Ali, adding that his medical school and many hospitals were also bombed. “I had to flee my home.” For over … Read More
January 3, 2025
(New York Times) – The takeaway from these and similar parables is clear, Dr. Sharfstein says: Crisis can be a powerful catalyst for shaping policy and improving society. But just like any such tool, it can be misused as easily … Read More
December 31, 2024
(Undark) – The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health? Can we predict the ebb and flow of infectious disease the way meteorologists predict the weather? The federal government … Read More
December 31, 2024
(Washington Post) – The head of the World Health Organization called for the immediate release of Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, who was detained as Israeli forces raided the facility last week. Other … Read More
December 31, 2024
(ABC News) – A 33-year-old flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people, is awake and talking to medical staff, according to a hospital official. The survivor, who … Read More
December 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council’s work on Covid-19 origins complied with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity,” the spokeswoman said. But an investigation by The … Read More
December 23, 2024
(Wired) – In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems, has become a key piece of the conflict. EDM4S—or Electronic Drone Mitigation 4 System—is a portable electronic-warfare weapon from Lithuania. … Read More
December 20, 2024
(Kron4) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency in response to bird flu on Wednesday. The declaration comes following the spread of avian influenza in 16 states, including California and outside the Central Valley. The declaration, according … Read More
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
