Month: September 2021

Ann Patchett finds that misfortune in small doses can cast a glittering light on the rest of life. View original article Contributor: Ann Patchett

En un gran estudio reciente, los pacientes recuperados de COVID-19 tuvieron 35 por ciento más probabilidades de sufrir daños a largo plazo en los riñones o un deterioro de la función renal. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck

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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho public health leaders announced Tuesday that they activated “crisis standards of care” allowing health care rationing for the state’s northern hospitals because there are more coronavirus patients than the institutions can handle. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare quietly enacted the move Monday and publicly announced it in a statement … Read more

Many of the 14 million Americans who got the single-dose vaccine worry about when they will become eligible for an additional shot. View original article Contributor: Derek Hawkins

Shunning the New Jersey suburbs in 1969, he set up a pay-what-you-can practice on the blighted Lower East Side and for three decades was a hero to the poor. View original article Contributor: Alex Traub

The World Health Organization asked wealthy countries to hold off on administering booster shots for healthy patients until at least the end of the year. View original article Contributor: Benjamin Mueller and Daniel E. Slotnik