The woman filled the neti pot with tap water, doctors said. (iStock) A Seattle, Washington woman whose brain was partly a “ball of bloody mush” after rare brain-eating amoebas infected her likely contracted the organisms after she used a neti pot full of tap water to clear her sinuses, according to a report. The woman,… Read More »
A face transplant that gave Cameron Underwood — a 26-year-old California native who attempted to kill himself two years ago — a new lease on life cost more than a million dollars. To date, the procedure — it was performed by the face transplant team at New York University Langone Medical Center — has cost $ 1.5 million,… Read More »
The FDA said that the ongoing outbreak is linked to the “end of season” harvest in some parts of California — but the agency still says people should not eat any romaine lettuce. People have become sick in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. An additional… Read More »
Right now, the healthcare industry ranks second among all industries when it comes to the amount it spends on research and development, but it likely won’t stay that way for long. New research from PricewaterhouseCoopers projects healthcare will take the top spot by 2020. Healthcare currently ranks below the computing and electronics industry worldwide, based… Read More »
Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not notify President Trump that the Department of Justice would join a lawsuit challenging Obamacare’s rules on pre-exising conditions, the president told Axios on HBO. “No, he didn’t,” Trump said when asked whether Sessions had given him the head’s up about the decision. That claim goes against Sessions’ recollection of… Read More »