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More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital's computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Vaught was prosecuted this year in an…

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Top runner and ski mountaineer Henriette Albon reveals how you can leave the concrete jungle and start your trail running journey.       Trail running is becoming an increasingly popular way to escape the fast pace of modern life. Since…

Researchers at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health found that the structurally racist policy of redlining in the past, is associated with current disparities in the availability of behavioral health clinicians in those same areas. Redlining was…

The BA.2.12.1 is spreading rapidly and overtaking the BA.2 Omicron subvariant. Little is known about the new subvariant, however, it appears to be highly transmissible, much like its ancestors. Medical News Today spoke to 5 experts to understand more about…

Being overweight in childhood increases the risk of developing type 1 diabetes in later life, according to the findings of a new study that analyzed genetic data on over 400,000 individuals. The study, co-led by researchers from the Universities of…

An estimated 15% of Americans over age 65 years who aren’t living in institutions are considered frail — a complex geriatric syndrome that raises the odds of disability, hospitalization, the need for nursing care, and death. But while the word…

Frontline nurses were plagued by “moral distress” in the early days of the pandemic because they lacked the support to provide high-quality care, a new report reveals. Between May and September 2020, researchers interviewed 100 nurses across the United States…

When we first met four-year-old Boulder, he was emaciated and losing his fur. The poor dog had an ear infection and a yellow discharge coming from his eyes; he was in a terrible state and in a lot of pain…

The health benefits of dietary fiber vary across individuals and may depend on the specific type of fiber and the dose consumed, researchers report April 28th in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. “Our results demonstrate that the physiological, microbial,…