Pediatric patients share special connection with hometown San Diego Padres
[ad_1] Peoria, Arizona — San Diego Padres players often visit pediatric patients at Rady Children’s Hospital. But this year, it was the children who made the trip to visit the players at spring training in Peoria, Arizona, thanks to an invite from their hometown heroes. “We’re not just, you know, caged up in a hospital…we More...
Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer found mixed with opioids, classified as a controlled substance in Pennsylvania
[ad_1] Xylazine in Philadelphia 01:22 Xylazine, the animal tranquilizer that has been found mixed with opioids in most of the United States, More...
How parents can combat the ongoing teen mental health crisis
[ad_1] Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that three in five teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless. It’s the latest troubling trend in an ongoing nationwide mental More...
Multi-front battle over abortion intensifies as Florida joins Republican-led states approving near-total bans
[ad_1] Florida has joined the ranks of a dozen Republican-led states that have approved near-total bans on abortion in the 10 months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday More...
What is human metapneumovirus, the infectious respiratory disease spiking this year?
[ad_1] John V. Williams is a professor of pediatrics, microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. In the year 2000, Dutch scientists went on a mission of exploration – not to discover More...
White House warns of “emerging threat” of fentanyl and xylazine, a veterinary drug
[ad_1] The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an “emerging threat” when it’s mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine. The More...
Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton says she has received Parkinson’s diagnosis
[ad_1] File: Rep. Jennifer Wexton participates in the annual Haymarket Day parade Oct. 20, 2018 in Haymarket, Virginia. Alex Wong / Getty Images More...
Female physicians at California hospital take on medicine’s gender gap
[ad_1] San Francisco — Dr. Laura Scrimgeour had never met a female cardiothoracic surgeon until she met Dr. Amy Fiedler. “I think it’s a real problem for women in medicine in all fields, but particularly More...
EPA finds more than 9 million lead pipes supplying drinking water throughout the U.S.
[ad_1] Millions in the U.S. could currently be at risk of consuming toxic material through their drinking water, according to a new survey released by the Environmental Protection Agency. The report found there More...
Camber Pharmaceuticals is recalling its pneumonia medication Atovaquone
[ad_1] Camber Pharmaceuticals has recalled some of its pneumonia medicine because it could be contaminated with a bacteria that can permanently damage someone’s heart. Atovaquone Oral Suspension — More...
