A 4-month-old child comes to the clinic with fever and nasal congestion. Vyonne Njeri thinks it’s just a cold. Then a yellow box appears on your computer telling you to check your heart, because your heart rate is elevated. Njeri is a registered clinical officer in Nairobi, Kenya; she sees patients alone like a nurse
An Israeli airstrike killed six members of a family in Gaza City, according to local doctors. Video footage showed the family’s apartment burning overnight in the western neighborhood of Al Sabra. Firas al-Masri’s brother told the BBC that he had been burned alive along with his wife, Salsabeel, and his three daughters and son, Faryal,
Sharon Stone has stopped smoking marijuana. His journey to cutting ties with cannabis began when he was prescribed several medications after suffering a near-fatal stroke in 2001. “I stopped taking one of the medications I was taking for my stroke last September and was told I couldn’t stop,” Stone tells me. “They said, ‘You can’t
As the U.S. military prepares for future high-intensity, high-casualty wars, its medics are training to do something they rarely did during the Global War on Terrorism: remove a tourniquet from a wounded soldier. Not long ago, tourniquet training for most U.S. service members followed a simple, strict guideline: apply one high and tight to the
A national medical staffing company attempted to take over Eugene Emergency Physicians’ contract to work at local hospitals. Local doctors used a new state law to oppose the measure. straw/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images hide title toggle title straw/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images For the latest stories on the science of healthy living, subscribe to NPR health
