Cyberattack on Ascension hospitals across the U.S. compromises patient care, leading to medication errors, delayed lab results, and patient safety risks, as health workers struggle without access to critical electronic systems.
A recent study reveals that surgeons are most frequently reported for unprofessional behavior by coworkers, while pediatric-focused physicians are least likely to be reported.
The Congressional Budget Office projects a rise in the uninsured rate to 8.9% by 2034, driven by immigration and policy changes affecting young adults, despite a record low of 7.2% in 2023.
A study in JAMA Network Open shows a rise in influenza vaccination mandates for U.S. health care personnel, with VA hospitals increasing from 4% in 2017 to 96% in 2021.
Pediatric cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux and her all-civilian crewmates on SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission provided unprecedented data on space travel's effects on the human body, revealing impacts on the brain, heart, muscles, kidneys, and more.
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The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person’s mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor’s insidious ability to infiltrate distant networks in the brain could also prove its undoing.
While cancers often originate from mutations and other alterations of cells' DNA, researchers in the Bernstein Laboratory at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have found that gliomas – incurable brain tumors – can arise due to changes in the epigenome, the collection of compounds that are deposited on DNA and alter gene activity without changing the sequence of DNA itself.
This collection of eight articles brings together neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and geneticists, among others, to unravel the pathophysiology of brain dysfunction.
Researchers have explored the impact of a combination therapy on radiation necrosis in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) brain metastases.