Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error, says medical mistakes are likely to increase as resource-strapped hospitals treat a rapid influx of COVID-19 patients. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of When We Do Harm: A Doctor Confronts Medical Error,…
BOSTON—The patient in Room 5 had one big thing going for her. She was young. Adriana Rice-Leiva, 31 years old and 7½ months pregnant, also had been in good health. Even in a hospital bed, hooked to machines and deathly ill with Covid-19, her dark hair shined and her skin glowed. Ms. Rice-Leiva was breathing…
After recovering from COVID-19, Dr. Dillon Barron (R) and his partner Eric Seelbach (L) say they are not allowed to donate plasma due to FDA restrictions. (Screenshot: CBS 2)After Dr. Dillon Barron, an emergency medicine physician at Amita Health St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., and his partner Eric Seelbach fully recovered from COVID-19, they…
Dr. Dillon Barron is a frontline emergency room doctor on Chicago's North Side. He's also a recovered COVID-19 patient. But when he tried to donate his plasma to help save others, he was flat-out denied the chance because he's gay, he says. Barron and his partner sat down with CBS Chicago.Blood donation guidelines have been…
Baltimore Sun | Jun 21, 2020 | 4:41 PM Maryland health officials reported 350 new coronavirus cases in the state on Sunday, as hospitalizations from the virus continue to decline. A total of 2,937 Marylanders have died from the virus since March, including 14 new deaths reported on Sunday. Another 129 people in Maryland have…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that