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Around the end of last year, Ronmel Rangel, 63, began to feel a familiar discomfort in his lower abdomen. Twenty-five years earlier, while living in his native Venezuela, he had undergone surgery to repair a hernia on the right side of his groin

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A lawsuit filed against UPMC Mercy Hospital and two physicians says a man contracted Legionnaires’ disease as a patient and died from the illness

Some patients have also been making their own recordings of medical visits, Katie Palmer reported for STAT. A growing number of consumer-facing mobile apps, such as VisitRecall, Advoca, Medcorder and AlignCare – some free, some for a monthly fee – use AI to record and summarize these appointments. Some apps break down the discussion into…

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Approximately three million people worldwide struggle with chronic pancreatitis, for which there is no cure. In a study published in Cell Stem Cell titled “Patient-derived organoids reveal ductal dysfunction and CFTR-modulator responses in chronic pancreatitis,”researchers from Salk Institute have developed an organoid platform to uncover the mechanism of chronic pancreatitis development and identify possible therapeutic strategies. 

Partnered Health says personal information and medical details and notes were breached in the attack on 21 clinics

Priscilla Ann Hendrix is charged with five counts of practicing medicine without a North Carolina license and five counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. (Photo: Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office)

Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78