Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois think that regional cooperation — and a particular soap — could help them all gain the upper hand against deadly superbugs.
A Texas woman has pancreatic cancer. She’s spending most of her remaining days not trying to enjoy life, but on the phone, doing battle with insurers and billing departments.
It often falls to health care providers to discern whether the asylum-seekers who say they’ve been tortured or persecuted in their homeland bear physical and psychological evidence of that harm.