Enlarge (credit: Getty | Barcroft) Health officials in Wisconsin are investigating what could be the first child death in the US—and the second worldwide—linked to a growing international outbreak of unexplained liver inflammation, aka hepatitis, in children. In a health alert Wednesday, Wisconsin health officials said they are investigating four cases of unexplained hepatitis in […]
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP) At least one child has died of unexplained liver inflammation in a growing international outbreak of puzzling hepatitis cases in children, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak tally has reached more than 170 cases in 12 countries and […]
Enlarge / Liver lesions in patient with chronic active hepatitis C. (credit: Getty | BSIP) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a health alert Thursday notifying clinicians of a US-based cluster of unexplained cases of liver inflammation in young children, which appear to be part of a puzzling international outbreak that now spans […]
A medical governing board in the United Kingdom has revoked a doctor’ s credentials from the country’ h medical rolls after it was determined in a tribunal that he carved his initials into two patients’ livers during transplant surgeries. Simon Bramhall was performing organ transplant surgery on two different patients in two incidents nearly a […]
Enlarge / Images of Real Water’s “alkalized” products, which the FDA now says you should not drink or use. (credit: FDA) At least five infants and children in Nevada have suffered acute non-viral hepatitis, resulting in liver failure, after drinking “alkalized” water by the brand “Real Water,” local and federal regulators reported this week. At […]
A woman from New York is recovering from a liver transplant after an infected nose ring caused a near-death experience. And boy, is it terrifying to the point where we’re triple cleaning our piercings right now! On Thursday, CBS New York reported that the woman, Dana Smith, had impulsively decided to get her nose pierced […]