Columnist Jacqueline Babiarz's daughter with Rett syndrome had to endure a long stay in the pediatric ICU due to pneumonia and COVID-19.| Rett Syndrome News
New research shows that alcohol deaths in the U.S. have doubled since 1999, with sharp increases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data signals an escalating public health crisis requiring urgent policy action. Disparities worsened: alcohol death rates surged among women, youth, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations, Black Americans saw a 21% annual increase in mortality after 2019. Experts call for urgent alcohol policy action, including improved screening and treatment access, alcoh...| Movendi International
In 2023, over 300,000 severe sepsis patients were treated in California hospitals. About 13 percent, over 43,000, of those died in hospital. Hospital charges for sepsis totaled $88 billion in California, based on total charges for all sepsis.| HCAI
Columnist Candice Galvan shares how she came to realize that to better care for her daughter, she needed to protect her own mental health.| Neuromyelitis News
If "worse" is measured in terms of mortality, this excellent graphic from the CDC illustrates why that statement is inaccurate. As I am typing this the total number of deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 in the USA is at 194,000 from 6.57 million cases and 387,616 hospitalizations in that past 7 months. The slide shows the total cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for the past 8 seasons (click to enlarge).| Real Psychiatry Technical Blog