Medical Article

Para apoyar la decisión del secretario Robert F. Kennedy Jr. de cambiar la política nacional sobre las vacunas contra covid-19, el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos (HHS) envió a los legisladores un documento que cita estudios científicos inéditos o controversiales, y tergiversa otros. Un experto en salud calificó el documento de “desinformación médica deliberada”…

Greg Herbruck knew 6.5 million of his birds needed to die, and fast. But the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch wasn’t sure how the family egg producer (one of the largest in the U.S., in business for over three generations) was going to get through it, financially or emotionally. One staffer broke down in Herbruck’s…

By KIM BELLARD I thought about writing about the election, but I’m too anxious – and a little terrified – about it, so I’ll take a pass. I was intrigued by Oracle Health’s promise of an AI-driven, “next-generation” EHR, or the news that OpenAI was introducing ChatGPT search, but I felt that each was inevitable…

In St. Louis, a team of students aboard a well-equipped van visits senior centers, a nursing home, a church, and other sites, learning to conduct comprehensive, hourlong geriatric assessments. The team — future doctors, social workers, psychologists, and therapists — looks for such common problems as frailty, muscle weakness, and cognitive decline. The patients they…