Article content continued If we can manage to control COVID, we should be able to control influenza activity According to the report for the week that ended Oct. 31, only one of the 40 or so regions it designates across country was reporting any flu — those eight cases — and there were no outbreaks.… Read More »
The United States could see “staggering” numbers of coronavirus deaths in the coming months as infection rates increase during the colder months, Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday. There were 1,038 deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. on Thursday, the largest total since late September, according to data compiled by the Covid Tracking… Read More »
By Clare Wilson Deaths due to stroke are on the decline in south LondonWildPixel/Getty Images Strokes are becoming less deadly, at least in one part of the UK. Rates of death and disability caused by a stroke have dropped by nearly a quarter in the past sixteen years in south London. The change is probably… Read More »
We’re kicking cancer’s butt. The cancer death rate in the US has declined for the 26th year, according to a heartening new report published Wednesday in the America Cancer Society’s “CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.” The death rate from the illnesses was rising until 1991, and then began falling steadily through 2017, which, the… Read More »
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is using ultrasound technology to guide placement of IV lines in children with presumed difficult access, such as veins that are too small. By using ultrasound, children are being spared multiple attempts by clinicians to insert IV lines, and the clinicians are experiencing higher success rates on insertion on the first… Read More »