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Hospitals and healthcare workers reflect on living with COVID a year after it came to dominate our lives.
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This story was produced by Side Effects Public Media, a news collaborative covering public health.The recent COVID surge was enough to push BJC Healthcare…
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It’s been five months since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and wiped out houses, roads and the power grid, as well as factories that make prescription…
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The Senate Health and Provider Services Committee on Wednesday threw its support behind a bill that would require Indiana physicians to check the state…
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The goal is to customize treatments for cancer and other diseases to a patient's own biology. But something as simple as failing to take care of tissue samples en route to the lab can derail that.
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Doctors move fast in the ER. Every second counts. That’s why Dr. Gina Huhnke is excited about a new way to quickly check her patients’ history with…
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Many surgeons prescribe strong pain medicine without knowing how much their patients actually need. A group of doctors says hospitals should be accountable for patients' long-term opioid use.
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WARRIOR, Ala. — The day Dr. Arthur Green (not his real name) checked into his rustic cabin here at Bradford Health Services, he said he doubted he could…
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Every medical provider must have a qualified company to haul away their waste. That includes everything from used needles, soiled bandages, discarded…
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Indiana has at least a dozen trauma hospitals which could respond in the event of a mass shooting like the one in Las Vegas Sunday night. But those…
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One day in August 2016, 83-year-old Albert Fink crashed his 2012 BMW sedan into a tree, on a curve on Indiana State Road 46 just outside of…
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This story was co-published with NPR.At 11:58 p.m. this past June 25, Helen Taylor gave birth to her first baby, a boy, at West Suffolk Hospital in the…