With the holidays upon us, and the whole world ready to let loose after a difficult year, your hospital and its employees are likely to experience an influx of patients. You’ll need all hands on deck and your internal computer networks running smoothly to care for people at the level they deserve. The last thing… Read More: How hospitals can protect patient information this holiday season »
An Argentinian woman, now in her 50s, has controlled HIV below the limits of detection since stopping HIV treatment due to side-effects in 2007, researchers from Buenos Aires and the US National Institutes of Health report. The woman no longer has antibodies to HIV and researchers found only a small number of cells containing HIV… Read More: The Buenos Aires patient: Argentinian woman controls HIV for at… »
A dying COVID-19 patient desperately begged to see his wife again, just hours before losing his battle against the disease. Tony Brown, 73, died in Barnet Hospital, London, after spending weeks in hospital hooked up to a ventilator. On Thursday the bread delivery man told Sky News he had not seen his wife Linda in… Read More: Dying COVID-19 patient begs to see wife »
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). When Tiffany Qiu heard how much her surgery was going to cost her, she was sure the hospital’s financial department had made a mistake. Qiu, who already knew from a breast cancer scare earlier that year that her plan required a… Read More: Savvy Patient Fought for the Price She Was Quoted −… »