My father is dying, besieged by both emphysema and a metastatic colon cancer that’s migrated to his lungs. I shudder in recognition because I’ve nearly been killed twice by raging diseases: An unusually aggressive prostate cancer, and an uncontrollable ulcerative colitis. What haunts Dad and me all these decades later, as we help each other… Read More »
Why Fibromyalgia Is So Puzzling. Updated December 3, Wait a few days before trying the activity that caused the soreness. Curr Oncol. Rhabdomyolysis is a complex muscle disorder in which muscle tissue becomes so damaged that it begins dissolving and releasing substances into the bloodstream. Exercises that tend pain cause DOMS most frequently include those… Read More »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced awards Thursday totaling $ 107.2 million to 310 recipients to increase the health workforce in rural and underserved communities. Recipients across 45 states and U.S. territories received funding to improve the quality, distribution and diversity of health professionals serving… Read More »
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers have enacted 31 changes to enable greater access to telehealth. In a hearing this week, members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions asked how many of those changes should be made permanent – and how to make sure the most vulnerable won’t get… Read More »