A Penn Nursing editorial urges hospitals to treat nurse staffing as emergency infrastructure, since heat-illness patients need close monitoring.

A 69-year-old woman's bleeding, diarrhea, and repeat sepsis were traced back to a snakeskin-like duodenum caused by light chain deposition disease.

A 17-month-old stopped breathing while co-sleeping. The thin mark on his neck looked like strangulation, but the cause was his mother's hair.

Doctors in China spent about 15 hours removing a hairball laced with cotton threads from a 7-year-old's stomach without cutting her open.

A 78-year-old man's pancreatitis turned necrotizing with no clear cause. Then doctors found a metal screw in his gut that CT and X-rays missed.

A swallowed retainer pierced a man's bowel, eluded surgeons, and burrowed into his psoas muscle, causing leg symptoms that mimicked a pinched nerve.

Former Walla Walla and Spokane spine patients of two surgeons could get at least $2,000 under $155.5 million in settlements awaiting court approval.

FDA says an Evolus Instagram reel likened Jeuveau, a Botox rival with a boxed warning, to everyday beauty products and minimized its risks.

Kratom poison center reports hit 3,190 by mid-2026 as Tennessee bans kratom and Rhode Island opens a regulated market for adults 21 and older.

A Fifth Circuit panel appeared skeptical of HHS as Humana fights a Medicare Advantage audit rule that could claw back billions in overpayments.