Health

Dr. Sara McLin thought she made the right choice by going to an in-network emergency room near her Florida home after her 4-year-old burned his hand on a stove last Memorial Day weekend. Her family is insured through her husband’s employer, HCA Healthcare, a Nashville-based health system that operates more …

Black Angels remembered for treating tuberculosis patients decades ago Black Angels remembered for treating tuberculosis patients decades ago 03:30 NEW YORK — As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we have a little-known story about nurses on the front line of a pandemic, but this one is not about COVID-19. Back …

Ukrainian soldier arrives in New York for surgery on legs wounded in war Ukrainian soldier arrives in New York for surgery on legs wounded in war 02:01 Retired businessman Gary Wasserson had never worked in the nonprofit world, but today he calls himself a humanitarian.  The 67-year-old former telecommunications industry …

Hayley Hodson had Olympic dreams from a young age.  “Without a doubt, an Olympic gold medal,” Hodson told CBS News. Hodson excelled as a star volleyball player at Stanford, but she suffered a concussion at practice during what her coaches called the “courage” drill. “It really felt like target practice,” …

A meatball made of lab-grown mammoth meat was unveiled at a science museum in the Netherlands on Tuesday.  Vow, the startup that made the meatball, created it using genetic information from the long-extinct mammoth, company researchers said in Tuesday’s media event. Some holes in the genetic sequence were filled in …

Scientists have found that climate change may lead to an increase in so-called flesh-eating bacteria in the waters along the East Coast of the U.S. The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is usually found in warm waters with low salinity, or salt content. While the bacteria is common in subtropical regions, there …

Erin Hanley knows she wants kids someday, but doesn’t know how or when it will happen, which led her to freeze her eggs in the fall of 2020. “I always wanted to have options so that I could make a choice later,” the 33-year-old told CBS News. Hanley isn’t alone. …

Cases of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris are now climbing at an “alarming” rate in health care facilities around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday, after reports of infected patients nearly doubled in 2021. For several years after the first American cases were reported in …

In-vitro fertilization, or IVF, had never crossed my mind until a year ago. IVF, or infertility at all, was not a topic that had really come up with my friends or family. I had never done a television story about it, and it was not a topic anyone really spoke …

The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 by former President Barack Obama, has expanded health insurance coverage across the U.S. and significantly reduced racial and ethnic disparities in access to healthcare, according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. Coverage inequities between Black, Hispanic, and white adults have narrowed …