She ’s Shaking Up Classical Music While Confronting Illness
The pianist Alice Sara Ott, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week, is upending concert culture — and defying stereotypes about multiple sclerosis. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Javier C. Hern ández Tags: Classical Music Multiple Sclerosis New York Philharmonic Ott, Alice Sara Munich (Germany) Content Type: Personal Profile Source Type: news
What Doctors Want You to Know About Beta Blockers for Anxiety
Start-ups are making it easier to get the pills online, but experts warn they should be used with caution. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Caron Tags: Beta Blockers Blood Pressure Anxiety and Stress Content Type: Service Heart Source Type: news
To Curb Bird Flu, Taxpayers Pay Millions to Kill Poultry. Is It Needed?
Big poultry farms have received millions of dollars for their losses. Animal welfare groups contend that aid reinforces inhumane cullings of birds exposed to the virus. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Jacobs Tags: Poultry Agriculture and Farming Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare Avian Influenza Factory Farming Eggs Viruses Agriculture Department Jennie-O Turkey Store (Barron, Wis) American Veterinary Medical Assn Tyson Foods Inc Source Type: news
The Organ Is Still Working. But It ’s Not in a Body Anymore.
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ted Alcorn Tags: your-feed-science Surgery and Surgeons Doctors Transplants Liver Organ Donation Blood Lungs Heart Medical Devices Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Ill) Source Type: news
Person Infected With Bird Flu in Texas After Contact With Cattle
The case adds another worrying wrinkle to a global outbreak that has devastated bird and marine mammal populations, and recently appeared in cattle herds. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Anthes and Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: Avian Influenza Cattle Agriculture and Farming Mammals Dairy Products Birds Viruses Livestock Diseases Agriculture Department Texas Source Type: news
Hospitals Must Get Written Patient Consent for Pelvic Exams, H.H.S. Says
In a letter to teaching hospitals, the federal health agency said that institutions could lose Medicare funding if they didn ’t comply. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emma Goldberg Tags: your-feed-science Health and Human Services Department Hospitals Pelvis Medicare Medicine and Health Privacy Source Type: news
Why Are Older Americans Drinking So Much?
The pandemic played a role in increased consumption, but alcohol use among people 65 and older was climbing even before 2020. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Paula Span Tags: Elderly Alcohol Abuse Age, Chronological Deaths (Fatalities) Alcoholic Beverages Women and Girls Men and Boys Workplace Environment Source Type: news
Bacteria That Cause Meningitis Are Spreading Again, C.D.C. Warns
More than 140 cases have been reported so far this year, far exceeding last year ’s pace, federal health officials said. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Roni Caryn Rabin Tags: your-feed-health your-feed-healthcare Meningitis Bacteria Deaths (Fatalities) Antibiotics Brain Infections Source Type: news
FDA Issues Alert on Heart Pump Linked to Deaths
The agency faulted the device maker for delayed notice of mounting complications, citing increasing reports of how use of the device perforated the walls of the heart. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Jewett Tags: Medical Devices Consumer Protection Heart Deaths (Fatalities) Implants Food and Drug Administration impella Abiomed Inc Johnson & your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz Tags: Computer Security Health Insurance and Managed Care Hospitals Regulation and Deregulation of Industry Cyberattacks and Hackers Electronic Health Records Extortion and Blackmail Medicine and Health Change Healthcare Technologies Inc Unite Source Type: news
They Can ’t See the Total Solar Eclipse, but LightSound Will Help Them Hear It
A device called LightSound is being distributed to help the blind and visually impaired experience this year ’s event. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robyn Ross Tags: Blindness Eclipses Computers and the Internet Engineering and Engineers Inventions and Patents Space and Astronomy Harvard University Source Type: news
Health Concerns Mount for Migrant Children at Outdoor Waiting Sites
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Baumgaertner Tags: Illegal Immigration Children and Childhood Border Barriers Immigration Detention Immigration and Emigration Humanitarian Aid Suits and Litigation (Civil) Border Patrol (US) Customs and Border Protection (US) Justice Department Californ Source Type: news
Health Concerns Mount for Migrant Children at Outdoor Holding Sites
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Baumgaertner Tags: your-feed-science Illegal Immigration Border Barriers Children and Childhood Immigration Detention Suits and Litigation (Civil) Doctors Immigration and Emigration Nonprofit Organizations Humanitarian Aid Babies and Infants Refugees a Source Type: news
How 2 Families Faced a Catastrophic Birth Defect
Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 28, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata and Kim Raff Tags: Trisomy 18 Genetics and Heredity Chromosomes Babies and Infants Pregnancy and Childbirth Disabilities Parenting Carey, John C (Doctor) University of Utah Support Organization for Trisomy Source Type: news
