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Royal Caribbean's huge ship Oasis of the Seas, seen here in the distance, had hundreds of passengers get sick in January 2019 from the highly contagious norovirus stomach flu.

How cruise ship passengers should prepare for sickness or injury at sea

October 16, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.

Royal Caribbean's gargantuan Oasis of the Seas boasts four outdoor pools and an 82-foot zip line and made quite a splash shortly after its 2014 refurbishment when it added the...

Medical professionals like doctors and nurses with opioid addictions typically are not offered medication-assisted treatment even though it is known to be one of the most effective methods.

Doctors and nurses with addictions often denied a crucial recovery option

September 30, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

Dr. Wesley Boyd, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard, has spent years working with state programs that help doctors, nurses and other health care workers who have become addicted...

For older adults, especially those who are frail, who have impaired cognition, or who have trouble seeing, hearing and moving around, health care facilities can be difficult to navigate and, occasionally, perilous.

In search of age-friendly health care, finding room for improvement

September 24, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Recently, during a visit to her doctor's office in Sequim, Washington, Sue Christensen fell to her knees in the bathroom when her legs suddenly gave out. The 74-year-old was in...

The face of this "Apple-like" watch, when removed from its wrist band, becomes a vaping device.

Camouflaged vaping devices are hoodwinking parents and schools

October 1, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

In yet another twist for worried parents: Meet the vaping hoodie. This high school fashion mainstay —defined by a hood with drawstrings — is now available as a vaping device,...

Medicare covers personal nutritional counseling for people with diabetes or kidney disease, but many people don't take advantage of the service — possibly because they're unaware it's an option.

Millions of diabetes patients are missing out on Medicare’s nutrition help

September 24, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Louis Rocco has lived with diabetes for decades but, until he met with a registered dietitian in August, he didn't know eating too much bread was dangerous for him. "I'm...

More than 75% of patients in the U.S. and Canada filled a prescription for opioids following four common surgeries, compared with 11% of Swedes, according to a recent study.

Study finds international differences in filling opioid prescriptions

September 11, 2019 at 8:11 a.m.

Americans and Canadians are seven times more likely to fill a prescription for opioid pain pills in the week after surgery than Swedes, says a study published in September, one...

Dr. Dorrie Black works at a 24-hour veterinary clinic near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. She said she often treats three dogs per week who have ingested marijuana. (Laura Klivans/KQED)

Legal weed’s a growing danger to dogs, so keep your canine out of your cannabis

July 10, 2019 at 6:25 p.m.

It all started on a Tuesday night, when I came home from work to an unmistakable absence. My brown-and-white pitbull mix, Maizey, wasn't at the top of the stairs to...

El doctor Coley King, quien atendió a Raymond Thill antes de su muerte, también atiende a su esposa Sherry, quien padece asma depresión y males pulmonares.

Los indigentes mueren en números récord en Los Angeles

May 15, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

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...

Lakeview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, shown on June 8, 2018. Shana Dorsey said the staff never told her about seriousness of her father's pressure sore, which led to sepsis, a severe infection that can quickly turn deadly.

In Illinois’ understaffed nursing homes, deadly infections persist from bedsores and common injuries that go untreated

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Shana Dorsey first caught sight of the purplish wound on her father’s lower back as he lay in a suburban Chicago hospital bed a few weeks before his death. Her...

761 hospitals nationwide face Medicare penalties

August 25, 2021 at 12:57 a.m.

A quarter of the nation's hospitals in October will receive lower Medicare payments because their rates of patient complications are higher than their peers. Federal officials released a preliminary analysis...

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