Scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of breast cancer ever achieved, revealing how genetic changes shape the physical tumour landscape, according to research funded by Cancer Research UK and published in Nature Cancer today (Monday). An international team of scientists*, brought together by an ambitious £20 million Grand Challenge award from Cancer…
What The Study Did: Researchers looked at the net income of nonprofit hospitals in the U.S. and examined how their financial status was associated with the level of charity care they provided in 2017 for uninsured and insured patients. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at this link https://media.jamanetwork.com/ Authors:…
Here’s what you need to know: Flights carrying American passengers from a cruise ship took off from Japan. ImageThe Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal, where the Diamond Princess is docked in Yokohama, Japan, south of Tokyo.Credit…Franck Robichon/EPA, via Shutterstock American passengers evacuated a cruise ship that has been quarantined for more than a week in the…
LONDON — A Chinese tourist has died in France of the coronavirus, the French health minister said on Saturday, becoming the outbreak’s first fatality in Europe and outside Asia. France’s health minister, Agnès Buzyn, said the tourist, who was 80 years old and from the Chinese province of Hubei, the center of the outbreak, died…
What The Study Did: Patients with chronic life-limiting illnesses often have medical orders with treatment limitations in place regarding medical interventions and intensive care unit admissions near the end of their lives. This observational study included about 1,800 patients with such orders who were hospitalized within six months of their death to examine how often…
Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Xi Jinping of China, left, visited a community health center in Beijing this week, in a photo released by the state news agency Xinhua.Credit…Pang Xinglei/Xinhua, via Getty Images Xi began fighting the virus earlier than previously known, a newly published speech indicates. China’s Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping,…
SYDNEY, Australia — In a country where there has always been more space than people, where the land and wildlife are cherished like a Picasso, nature is closing in. Fueled by climate change and the world’s refusal to address it, the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests…
A federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling striking down work rules for Medicaid recipients in Arkansas, casting more doubt over broader Trump administration efforts to require poor people to work, volunteer or train for a job as a condition of getting government health coverage. A three-judge panel of the…
The letter went out to about 1,900 Californians a few weeks ago from law firms bringing a class-action suit against one of the country’s largest assisted-living chains. If the recipients, or their family members, had lived in a community operated by Sunrise Senior Living in recent years, “we would like to speak with you regarding…
SEOUL, South Korea — The United States said it would approve humanitarian assistance to North Korea to help international aid agencies fight the coronavirus there, amid fears that the impoverished country may be hiding an outbreak. North Korea has not reported any cases of the new coronavirus. But in the past week, some South Korean…