Mar. 16, 2025
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For years, sick babies at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital would spend days, weeks and even months in the heavily-monitored, technology-filledneonatal intensive care unit, only to eventually go home with little more than old-school binders for their parents to diligently take notes on their health with a pen and paper.
“It was kind of archaic how we did it. We would send the parents home with these binders and ask them to write things down and call us days and weeks later with some of the data.
Mar. 16, 2025
People take cover from shelling in the city of Bucha, Ukraine, west of Kyiv, on March 4.Photo: ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty
“The wounded are being brought to us all the time,” Vladislav Gorbovyetz, a vascular surgeon in Bucha, Ukraine, tells PEOPLE. “We live in fear of being bombed, we do our work, we get on with it. We have no other aim in life.”
“There wasn’t any healthy tissue there,” he says of first seeing the girl’s left arm.
Mar. 16, 2025
If you thought multiple bees flying around you were bad, just imagine having them inside your eyelid.
That’s what a 29-year-old Taiwanese woman experienced last week after she began suffering from severe eye pain and found four bees under her eyelid feeding on her tear ducts,according to local outletCTS News.
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Because it felt like dirt or sand in her eye, the woman said she tried to flush it out with water but was unsuccessful.
Mar. 16, 2025
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A procedure that was hailed for its revolutionary approachleft one person deadand another severely ill last Spring. The doctors involved have now come forward to explain what happened.
In an article published in theNew England Journal of Medicineon Wednesday, a group of doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital detail their mistakes in the fatal fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), and hope to eliminate some fears about the still-new technology.
Mar. 16, 2025
Bob Saget’s familyconfirmed on Wednesdaythat the actor’sdeath last monthat the age of 65 was due to head trauma.
In their statement, the Saget family said that authorities “have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.”
In light of the development, CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and visiting professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, tells PEOPLE why it’s so important to remain vigilant after a head injury.