A brain-injured Alberta baby at the centre of a controversial end-of-life decision that landed in court has died. Baby Isaiah May was pronounced dead at 12:11 p.m. Thursday. He died in the arms of his parents Rebecka and Isaac May, and surrounded by his aunts, uncles and grandparents
One afternoon during my training, I watched as one of my closest friends, another surgery resident, was led into the office of the department chief. A week earlier she had been on call when a patient developed a rapid and irregular heart rhythm. He became unconscious and would have soon died if my friend had not stepped in and resuscitated him.
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers are tapping into their inner Tolstoys to better connect with patients.
With increasing regularity, they're meeting in monthly book clubs to discuss medical-themed literature. Humanities courses are now required in many medical schools.
People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday. In four articles published in the medical journals Lancet and Lancet Neurology, European researchers suggest current guidelines for treating people with high blood pressure need to be revised.
Two research teams have independently decoded the entire genome of patients to find the exact genetic cause of their diseases. The approach may offer a new start in the so far disappointing effort to identify the genetic roots of major killers like heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's.
