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​Despite widespread adoption by hospitals of surgical robot technology over the past decade, a "slapdash" system of reporting complications paints a , according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
Dr. Tim Lepore, 67, is a jack-of-all-trades general surgeon, tending to the 10,000 full-time residents of the Massachusetts island of Nantucket and to the many thousand more rich and famous summer-dwellers. Dr. Lepore has dealt with everything from poison ivy and tick-borne illnesses to narcolepsy and toe tourniquet syndrome (when a mother's hair wraps around a baby's toe, cutting off circulation). He counsels alcoholics, and allows patients to barter for health care. He once accepted oatmeal cookies from an immigrant worker who had no money for treatment.
The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada will be waiting at the finish line today for Team Wishful Thinking, one of the competing teams in the Targa Newfoundland Race. Children's Wish is there to cheer on the team and gratefully accept the over $100,000 cheque Team Wishful Thinking has raised in support of Children's Wish.
Glens Falls Hospital and Aetna today announced a new multiyear agreement. Glens Falls will remain an "in-network" provider of care for Aetna members.
To determine how long Ebola virus could remain infectious in a body after death, National Institutes of Health scientists sampled deceased Ebola-infected monkeys and discovered the virus remained viable for at least seven days. They also detected non-infectious viral RNA for up to 70 days post-mortem. The study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, suggests that Ebola transmission from deceased individuals may be possible for an extended period of time following death, underscoring the importance of using safe practices for handling corpses.
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