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Getty ImagesPeople with laryngeal dystonia (LD), a condition that makes the voice sound strained and hoarse, might benefit from a drug already used to treat a sleep disorder, researchers say. Some volunteers who tried the narcolepsy treatment, sodium oxybate, found it...

After their younger son was bitten by a rattlesnake and ended up in the pediatric intensive care unit, a San Diego couple received a huge bill. Listen to hear why antivenom is so expensive. This spring, a San Diego toddler spent two days in a pediatric intensive care...

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes. The spouse hadn’t responded to calls from other employees at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank, he said. As...

As I waited for brain surgery, I instinctively pressed record on my phone camera, thinking I might be documenting the final months of my life.I have made a career telling other people’s stories but this seemed like a time to tell my own.It began with a bicycle crash...

BBC Hundreds of women in the UK are planning to take on one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies over alleged links between talc and cancer.Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021, Cassandra Wardle is one of the women launching a group action against the...

Family photoThe wife of a motorcyclist who could have been saved after a crash, had it not been for an ambulance delay, has spoken of her pain at being a widow aged 28.Aaron Morris, 31, died about six hours after colliding with a car on 1 July 2022 in Esh Winning,...

BBCGP practices could be pushed "over the edge" by a planned rise in the National Insurance (NI) rate for employers, a doctor has said.The government has said the NHS and the rest of the public sector would be shielded from the rise but that does not cover GP...

Getty ImagesThe government has ordered a review of physician associates (PA) and anaesthesia associates (AA) in England after mounting concern about their use in the NHS.The number of PAs and AAs, who help doctors, are in the process of being rapidly expanded.But the...

Indiana residents and federal officials are urging state health regulators to stop two rival hospitals in Terre Haute from merging. The deal, if approved, would leave residents with a hospital monopoly. Union Health, a nonprofit whose main hospital is licensed as a...

Hospitals around the country are conserving critical intravenous fluid supplies to cope with a shortage that may last months. Some hospital administrators say they are changing how they think about IV fluid hydration altogether. Hurricane Helene, which hit North...

BOISE, Idaho — Physicians are expected to take the stand in Idaho’s capital on Tuesday to argue that the state’s near-total prohibition of abortion care is jeopardizing women’s health, forcing them to carry fetuses with deadly anomalies, and preventing doctors from...

In March, newly installed Social Security chief Martin O’Malley criticized agency “injustices” that “shock our shared sense of equity and good conscience as Americans.” He promised to overhaul the Social Security Administration’s often heavy-handed efforts to claw...