Enlarge (credit: Zipline International) Six years ago, Rwanda had a blood delivery problem. More than 12 million people live in the small East African country, and like those in other nations, sometimes they get into car accidents. New mothers hemorrhage. Anemic children need urgent transfusions. You can’t predict these emergencies. They just happen. And when they […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a plastic-domed case at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, researchers gave a pair of lungs a new identity. When the lungs first arrived in the lab, they were from someone with type A blood, meaning that there were certain tiny markers, called antigens, attached to the lung tissue and […]
Enlarge (credit: Morsa Images | Getty Images ) Almost from the beginning of the COVID pandemic , reports have accumulated of persistent, weird, disabling symptoms in survivors, a syndrome that’s come to be known as long COVID . The complex of fatigue, confusion, heart arrhythmias, gut disorders, and other problems—which may persist months after an […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jonathan Kitchen) As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the country last year, the chief executive officers of 178 US healthcare companies saw their already lofty pay soar to even higher heights. Collectively, the 178 CEOs took home $3.2 billion in 2020, according to a new analysis by Axios. Their median pay […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty | George Frey) Amazon and Walmart are ramping up their efforts to grab market share in the $360 billion prescription drug market in the US. Today, Amazon announced that Prime members can receive a six-month supply of several widely prescribed drugs, starting at $6. Many drugs are pricier but are still discounted […]
Enlarge / A vial with the Pfizer Biontech vaccine. (credit: Thomas Lohnes | Getty Images) The world could “end the pandemic” in mid-2022 by vaccinating 60 percent of the population at a cost of $50 billion, the IMF has said, as rich countries and vaccine manufacturers pledged to address the inequality undermining the global response […]
Enlarge / In this 2011 photo, Dr. Michael A. Lee uses Dragon Medical voice-recognition software to enter his notes after seeing a patient. (credit: David Ryan via Getty Images) Earlier today, Microsoft announced its plans to purchase Nuance for $56 per share—23 percent above Nuance’s closing price last Friday. The deal adds up to a […]
(charge: Getty | Move Nakamura) More individuals in the USA are now hospitalized using COVID-19 than ever before from the outbreak, and physicians in a lot of countries are on the verge of becoming overrun. Approximately 62,000 men and women in america are presently in the hospital using all the pandemic coronavirus, topping all preceding […]