ST. LOUIS — Missouri healthcare advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can’t afford it. The 27-year-old said she takes 10 medications daily to manage multiple chronic illnesses. Now she worries the cost of those drugs could rise — not because of price increases, but because of
He was a surgical oncologist at a hospital in a Southern city, a 78-year-old whose colleagues had begun noticing troubling behavior in the operating room. During procedures, he seemed “hesitant, not sure of how to go on to the next step without being prompted” by assistants, said Mark Katlic, director of the Aging Surgeon Program
6 min read The following story contains spoilers for The Pitt season 2, episode 3, "9:00 A.M." PART OF THE fun of watching The Pitt—a fast-paced medical drama that takes place in real-time—is that we get to jump back and forth between all kinds of different medical predicaments, often with significantly differing levels of urgency.
4 min read The following story contains light spoilers for The Pitt season 2, episode 1, "8:00 AM." THERE ARE A lot of things that make The Pitt a fun show. Its fast-paced nature keeps us at full attention, its commitment to detail makes each case feel more realistic than just about anything else on
Dr Karina Volkova After Russian otorhinolaryngology (ENT) specialist Karina Volkova contacted Düsseldorf physician Rainer Frerich about a position in his practice, everything moved quickly. With a €1500 monthly subsidy from KV Nordrhein (the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians for the North Rhine area) and a temporary professional permit issued by the Münster District Government
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two