Los indigentes mueren en números récord en Los Angeles
Con base en esos criterios, la oficina del forense reportó 3,612 muertes de personas sin techo en el Condado de Los Angeles de 2014 a 2018. En ese condado muere...
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Antibiotic-resistant superbugs kill thousands each year. Chicago health care facilities are testing a special soap that could help.
Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple strategy against the dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs that kill thousands of people each year: washing patients with a...
‘Medieval’ diseases flare as unsanitary living conditions proliferate
Jennifer Millar keeps trash bags and hand sanitizer near her tent, and she regularly pours water mixed with hydrogen peroxide on the sidewalk nearby. Keeping herself and the patch of...
‘Medieval’ diseases flare as unsanitary living conditions proliferate
Jennifer Millar keeps trash bags and hand sanitizer near her tent, and she regularly pours water mixed with hydrogen peroxide on the sidewalk nearby. Keeping herself and the patch of...
Cancer’s complications: Confusing bills, maddening errors and endless phone calls
Carol Marley wants everyone to know what a life-threatening cancer diagnosis looks like in America today. Yes, it's the chemotherapy that leaves you weak and unable to walk across the...
An underused strategy for surge in STDs: Treat patients’ partners without a doctor visit
If patients return to Dr. Crystal Bowe soon after taking medication for a sexually transmitted infection, she usually knows the reason: Their partners have re-infected them. "While you tell people...
Primary care doctors ‘not doing enough’ to curb STDs
Julie Lopez, 21, has been tested regularly for sexually transmitted diseases since she was a teenager. But when Lopez first asked her primary care doctor about screening, he reacted with...
Out-of-pocket costs put HIV prevention drug out of reach for many at risk
Public health officials are expanding efforts to get the HIV prevention pill into the hands of those at risk, in a nationwide effort to curb infections. But the officials are...
COPD now afflicts more women than men in U.S.
Joan Cousins was among a generation of young women who heard and bought into the idea that puffing on a cigarette was sophisticated, modern, even liberating. No one suspected it...
At egg freezing parties, women sip wine, chat about postponing motherhood
Your grandma hosted Tupperware parties. Your mom attended Mary Kay soirees. Now, you might be sipping cocktails at an egg-freezing fete. Judging from a recent event at a swanky Beverly...