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A Tumor in a 5-Month-Old's Belly Held Brain and Eye Tissue and an Amniotic Membrane That Kept Making Fluid
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (730+ words) A 5-month-old girl, already malnourished, came to the doctors with a belly that kept getting bigger. Imaging showed a mass with multiple fluid-filled pockets deep in her abdomen. A biopsy turned up pancreatic tissue, so her doctors suspected a pancreatic…...
A Chest X Ray Suggested a Lung Tumor, and Surgeons Found Bone Growing Off the Second Rib
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (867+ words) A 41-year-old man in Japan went in for a routine health checkup and left with a chest X-ray showing a rounded mass roughly 4 centimeters across in the upper part of his left lung field. On a plain film, it looked…...
Hospital Epinephrine Vials Recalled Nationwide After Leaking Containers and Particles Including Glass Turn Up in Three Lots
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1055+ words) American Regent is recalling three lots of its Epinephrine Injection, USP 30 mg/30 mL multi-dose vials nationwide after customers reported cracked and leaking vials. The company's investigation then found particulate matter identified as nylon, cellulosic material, acrylic, polyethylene, and glass, according…...
Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (842+ words) Most people assume the pancreas sits in front of the large veins that drain the gut and the spleen. In a small share of the population, it does not. A collar of pancreatic tissue loops behind the portal vein and…...
A Suspected Food Clump Blocking Her Bowel Turned Out to Be Surgical Gauze Left 15 Years Earlier
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (759+ words) For three years, a 65-year-old woman in Culiacán, Mexico, had bouts of diarrhea that no treatment could stop. In the year before she landed in the emergency department, she lost about 15 kilograms, roughly 33 pounds. Surgeons and researchers from Hospital Civil…...
Troy Kept Its Birthing Center After a Public Campaign, but Hundreds of Maternity Units Have Closed
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1040+ words) Troy, New York, kept the last birthing center in Rensselaer County. Trinity Health, the Michigan-based system that owns Samaritan Hospital, reversed its closure plan nearly a year after announcing it, following a campaign that pulled together the city's Republican mayor,…...
Hubble and James Webb Space TelescopesSix Months of Foul Discharge From One Nostril Led Doctors to a Tooth Erupting Inside a Man's Nose
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (635+ words) For six months, a 45-year-old man dealt with foul-smelling discharge from his right nostril and nosebleeds that came and went. When doctors looked inside with an endoscope, they saw a hard white mass sitting on the floor of his right…...
Many Cecil County Families Face Hourlong Drives to Give Birth After the County's Only Maternity Unit Closed
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (749+ words) Expectant families in Cecil County, Maryland, have had no hospital in the county where they can give birth since June 30, when ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elkton closed its Family Birth Center. More than two months later, county leaders say a…...
Schools Are Stocking Anti-Choking Suction Devices, but Only One Is FDA Authorized and Only as a Backup
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (746+ words) That order matters because a person who cannot breathe can suffer brain injury within minutes. The FDA warns that using a device before established protocols "could delay critical life-saving action," partly because taking a device out of its packaging and…...
Genetic Testing Ties 11 Drug-Resistant Bacterial Cases at a Maryland Hospital to the Building's Own Water System
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (898+ words) Bacteria found in 11 patients at a Maryland hospital were genetically matched to samples from the hospital's own water system, according to an investigation published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The organism is Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous…...