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One moment, Dr. Cornelius Sullivan was standing over a patient during surgery. The next, he woke up in an ambulance on the way to the emergency room.
The anesthesiologist had hit his head on a monitor that had been moved behind him at a surgery center -- a serious accident that landed him in the hospital for two nights and kept him out of work for weeks.
Sadly, this wasn't the...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- April 27, 2025
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Most seniors have embraced "doc-in-a-box"strip mall clinics and urgent care centers as a means of getting prompt medical care, a new poll has found.
About 60% of people ages 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care center or a retail health clinic during the past two years -- even though those sort of options weren't available earlier in their lives.
"The rapid rise in availability of t...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 10, 2024
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It's an important health topic, but both adult patients and their primary care doctors shy away from discussing firearms and gun safety, a new survey finds.
While they may discuss a variety of health risks, firearm safety isn't often one of them, the study from Michigan Medicine found.
Of more than 500 adult patients who had regular checkups during a one-month period, about 56% bypa...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- September 18, 2023
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One-third of public health workers have endured threats, anger and aggression from the public during the pandemic, and that has come at a steep cost to their mental health, a new study finds.
"The negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers have been documented and the research on psychological impacts is building,"said lead study author
With online medical visits growing in popularity, a new study offers some reassurance: Diagnoses made via video are usually on the money.
Mayo Clinic researchers found that of preliminary diagnoses made during video appointments at their centers, 87% were later confirmed during in-person visits.
The caveat is, the accuracy varied somewhat according to the type of medical condition: ...
- Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
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- September 7, 2022
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A seemingly endless wait in an emergency department can be taxing for many reasons, but new research suggests that long delays in being admitted to the hospital may even raise a patient's risk of death within the following 30 days.
Why? One possible reason: A crowded ER might mean care happens in suboptimal spaces, said study author Simon Jones, a research professor in the department of p...
- Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
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- January 19, 2022
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The White House on Wednesday unveiled a national plan to roll out coronavirus vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds that is designed to make getting shots as easy and comfortable as possible for both kids and their parents.
Rather than mass vaccination sites, the Biden administration plans to have pediatric COVID shots delivered in settings that parents know and trust.
"Nationwide, more t...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 20, 2021
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The National Health Service Corps will receive $100 million to help tackle the U.S. health care worker shortage, the White House announced Thursday.
That's a five-fold increase in funding from previous years for a program that helps find primary care doctors for communities that struggle to recruit and keep them, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, NBC News<...
- HealthDay Reporter
- Robert Preidt and Robin Foster
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- October 15, 2021
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