During a recent Zoom conference call, four Adult Protective Services workers from California, using a tool called the Interview for Decisional Abilities, or IDA, were trying to figure out whether something fishy was going on with an 82-year-old woman they knew as Ms. K. Adult Protective Services agencies in every state receive reports of possible…
Taking pills to end a pregnancy accounts for a growing share of abortions in the United States, both legal and not. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade as expected, medication abortion will play a larger role, especially among women who lose access to abortion clinics. What is medication abortion? It’s a regimen of…
Just Give Me the Steroids! A week later, Kahwash received an email from the woman through his patient portal. She was still miserable — still covered with hives, still not sleeping at all. What was the next step? He immediately ordered an intravenous medication known as omalizumab. This monthly medication — often used to treat…
The manufacturer of Ashley Hernandez’s preferred baby formula for her two girls said it was out of stock on its website. Listings on eBay showed it would cost her up to $120 for a single can. So when she found a seller online offering 10 cans for $40 each, she expressed her desperation. “I have…
Absent that option, emergency rooms have taken up the slack. A recent study of 88 pediatric hospitals around the country found that 87 of them regularly board children and adolescents overnight in the E.R. On average, any given hospital saw four boarders per day, with an average stay of 48 hours. “There is a pediatric…
The cost to UNICEF of Paxlovid — including Pfizer’s insistence that UNICEF keep how much it pays confidential — remains a sticking point, said Dr. Philippe Duneton, who runs the therapeutics arm of the W.H.O. consortium. In announcing its “strong recommendation” for Paxlovid, the W.H.O. took the highly unusual step of publicly scolding Pfizer for…
En su nuevo libro, la neurocientífica Stephanie Cacioppo indaga en el romance, la pérdida y la conexión humana mientras relata su propia historia de amor.
The police said two Ohio State University students died in apparent drug overdoses this week as health officials warned that fake Adderall pills could contain fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. The police received a 911 call at 10:46 p.m. on Wednesday from a woman who reported that her roommate and her roommate’s friends had overdosed…
Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that has saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with an electrical jolt, died on April 25 in Denver. He was 89. His son, Mark, said the cause was cancer. Dr. Mower and Dr. Michel Mirowski, a colleague at…
Social circles were shrinking even before the pandemic. Here’s what the science says about the number of close friendships we should have.