Mahvash Disease Case Resolved With Liver Transplantation
A woman with Mahvash disease presented with portal hypertension that necessitated liver transplantation; the liver complications observed in this case report distinguish it from what’s more typically seen in patients with this condition. The 27-year-old woman presented with mildly elevated aminotransferase levels and chronic pancreatitis after having experienced three episodes of hematemesis. Although her imaging […]
Mahvash Disease Case Resolved With Liver Transplantation
A woman with Mahvash disease presented with portal hypertension that necessitated liver transplantation; the liver complications observed in this case report distinguish it from what’s more typically seen in patients with this condition. The 27-year-old woman presented with mildly elevated aminotransferase levels and chronic pancreatitis after having experienced three episodes of hematemesis. Although her imaging […]
Opinion | Avoiding Male Doctors Is Not Discrimination. It May Be Risk Aversion.
Lee is a psychiatry resident. “Whenever a woman speaks up, someone will tell her to be quiet,” a therapist working at our local domestic violence center said to me last week. “I’ve had people tell me that my job is based on man-hating.” Somehow, I am wholly unsurprised by this comment. Dismayed, yes; surprised, absolutely […]
Live Worm Removed From Woman’s Brain
A live, wriggling parasitic roundworm, 80 mm long, was extracted from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in Australia. The worm was a third-stage larval form of Ophidascaris robertsi and was surgically removed from the patient’s right frontal lobe, reported Sanjaya Senanayake, MBBS, of the Canberra Hospital in Australia, and co-authors in Emerging Infectious Diseases. […]
HIV Patient With Movement Disorder Has Different Symptoms on Left and Right Sides
A 59-year-old woman with a background of HIV living with an uncontrollable movement disorder presented to Eoghan Donlon, MB, BCh BAO, MRCPI, of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, and colleagues. Of note, the symptoms occurring on the left side of her body were very different than those on her right side, the […]
Stem Cell Medical Tourism Leads to Meningitis in MS Patient
A woman with multiple sclerosis (MS) who had intrathecal injections of umbilical cord stem cells in Mexico ended up with a severe Mycobacterium abscessus infection that took weeks to identify and treat, according to a case study. In October 2022, the woman in her 30s traveled to Baja California, Mexico, and received two lumbar punctures […]
Four-Year-Old Gets Hospital Bill; Woolly Mammoth Meatball; How AR-15s Damage Humans
Note that some links may require subscriptions. A Florida woman wanted to talk to the hospital about her 4-year-old son’s bill, but hospital officials said they couldn’t speak with her because the bill was in her son’s name. (NPR) The FDA approved the first over-the-counter naloxone (Narcan) product for reversing opioid overdoses. While over-the-counter naloxone […]
Health Insurance Claims for Sex Services Leads to Conspiracy Charges
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is charging a woman for a long-running healthcare fraud scheme: from 2017 to 2021, she billed a health insurer for sexual services offered to dockworkers at her California “wellness centers.” Sara Victoria, the “ringleader” of the scheme, hired women through Long Beach strip clubs and referrals to provide the services […]
Opinion | Medical Education Has ‘Gone Woke’ — That’s a Good Thing
A Black woman whose kidneys only function at 15% of normal wishes to be evaluated for a kidney transplant. Although this is very reasonable, before 2021, many physicians would have said, “I’m sorry, but your kidney function is not bad enough to be referred for a transplant.” This is because the kidney function calculator used […]
NY Man And Woman Face $500 Fines After Bringing Raccoon To Store
ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man and woman face fines of $500 each after they took a raccoon to a pet store to shop for food and a store worker ratted them out, authorities said. A state Department of Environmental Conservation police officer got an urgent call from the Erie County Department of […]