The system is coping, but the intensity of COVID-19 has surprised even experienced doctors.
Hospitals in the city are eerily quiet—emptied out in preparation for the surge in COVID-19 cases to come.
Most people don’t understand exponential growth. If they did, they’d be far more frightened.
The U.S. has been slow to roll out testing, leaving communities in the dark about the spread of the virus. It was a lost opportunity to stop the virus in its tracks.
Patients in hospital ERs can wait hours for inpatient beds to open up. The delays can be maddening. A solution for this long-standing problem has been elusive in the U.S., despite progress elsewhere.
The heavy hallucinogen ibogaine is illegal in the US, but some addicts are flocking to Mexican clinics for it, hoping to be cured. A physician investigates.
Heatstroke tends to get the most attention during extreme heat waves. But other diseases are affected by high temperatures as well.
An operations management specialist is applying lessons from statistics to help free up hospital beds. It’s working.
While misinformation can sway elections and threaten public institutions, medical falsehoods can threaten people’s health, or even their lives.
Caps on shift lengths for medical residents were implemented to improve patient safety. Given the effects of sleep deprivation on emotional capacity and residents' well-being, why risk longer hours?