The night before Dr. Joanne Liu was scheduled to deliver a long-planned speech at N.Y.U. Langone Health, the hospital affiliated with her alma mater, she received a call that stunned her. Her presentation on humanitarian crises was being canceled, the university official on the other end of the line said. The reason, Dr. Liu said…
A New York county clerk on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman. The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and…
Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he could die in peace, the head of the pope’s medical team said. After a breathing crisis on February 28 that involved Francis nearly choking on his vomit, “there was…
Pope Francis’s condition has improved enough that he will be discharged from a hospital in Rome on Sunday and sent to recover in the Vatican, his doctors said on Saturday evening. They added that the case of pneumonia in both lungs was so severe that it had twice put his life in grave danger. The…
Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a possible risk factor for heart disease, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Winchester, Mass….
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional informó el lunes que había deportado a una profesora y médica de la Universidad Brown con un visado válido porque, según indicó, asistió al funeral de un dirigente de Hizbulá en febrero durante un viaje a Líbano. Al ser interrogada por agentes de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza a su regreso…
The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon. When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha…
The Indian Academy of Paediatrics, the largest association of paediatricians in India, has sent an email to all its members warning them against taking part in any event or programme that violates the Infant Milk Substitutes (IMS) Act. The mail further explained that prohibition on sponsorship under IMS Act includes “not only manufacturers of infant…
Bryant Lin estaba de pie frente a su clase en Stanford en septiembre, probablemente una de las últimas que impartiría. Con solo 50 años y no fumador, le habían diagnosticado cáncer de pulmón en estadio 4 cuatro meses antes. La enfermedad es terminal, y Lin calculó que le quedaban unos dos años antes de que…
Florida’s insurance regulator has demanded an unusually intrusive trove of data on millions of prescription drugs filled in the state last year, including the names of patients taking the medications, their dates of birth and doctors they’ve seen. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation in January sought this information from pharmacy benefit managers like UnitedHealth’s…