Hospitals
Lisa Marie Presley, Singer-Songwriter and Daughter of Elvis, Dies at 54
Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley, died on Thursday in Los Angeles after a medical emergency and a brief hospitalization. She was 54. Sam Mast, a representative of Priscilla Presley, her mother, announced the death in a statement. Earlier in the day, Ms. Presley said her daughter had been receiving […]
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Lisa Marie Presley, the Daughter of Elvis Presley, Dies at 54
Lisa Marie Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley, died on Thursday after a medical emergency and a brief hospitalization. She was 54. “Priscilla Presley and the Presley family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie,” Sam Mast, a representative for Priscilla Presley, her mother, said in […]
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Women Face Risks as Doctors Struggle With Medical Exceptions on Abortion
HOUSTON — Dr. Amanda Horton, an obstetrician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, had been counseling pregnant patients at a small hospital in rural Texas last month when a woman arrived in crisis: It was only 17 weeks into her pregnancy and her water had broken. The fetus would not be viable outside the womb, and […]
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NYC Monkeypox Patients Face Painful Symptoms and Struggle For Care
Although he was covered with lesions, it took four hours of phone calls, and then five hours in a Harlem emergency room, for Gabriel Morales to be tested for the monkeypox virus earlier this month. And that was just the beginning of his wait. Mr. Morales was sent home and told the Department of Health […]
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After New Abortion Laws, Some Patients Have Trouble Obtaining Miscarriage Treatment
Last year, a 35-year-old woman named Amanda, who lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, had a miscarriage in the first trimester of her pregnancy. At a large hospital, a doctor performed a surgical procedure often used as a safe and quick method to remove tissue from a failed pregnancy. She awoke from anesthesia to find […]
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Drug-Resistant Infections in Hospitals Soared During the Pandemic, C.D.C. Says
The spread of drug-resistant infections surged during the coronavirus pandemic, killing nearly 30,000 people in 2020 and upending much of the recent progress made in containing the spread of so-called superbugs, according to an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths caused by infections impervious to antibiotics and antifungal medications rose 15 […]
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‘It’s Like Parallel Realities’: Rituals of Life and Death Blur in a Vibrant Ukrainian City
LVIV, Ukraine — The tiny wail of newborn babies echoes out from the incubators and cribs lining a small room with mint green walls in a maternity hospital in Lviv. Twenty-seven years ago, Liliya Myronovych, the chief pediatrician in the neonatal department, delivered a baby boy, Artemiy Dymyd, here. Last week, she watched out the […]
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A Clunky, Reusable Mask May Be the Answer to N95 Waste
“Elastomerics for us really were a game changer,” Dr. Chalikonda said. “When I think of all the millions of dollars wasted on N95s and then trying to reuse them makes you realize how much elastomerics are a missed opportunity.” Federal health officials say they are moving as fast as possible to produce stronger guidance on […]
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11 Families in Senegal Welcomed Newborns. A Fire Left Them Devastated.
TIVAOUANE, Senegal — The baby boy did not yet have a name. He was only a day old on Wednesday when a fire broke out in the neonatal section of the hospital where he was born, in the holy city of Tivaouane in central Senegal. He was on the maternity ward’s third floor; his mother, […]
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