Less is also better—that is what researchers have found while conducting a tri-nation clinical trial to see if shorter courses of antibiotics are as effective as longer prescriptions of the drug to ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

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Mechanical ventilation remains a cornerstone of support for patients with acute respiratory failure, particularly those with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe pneumonia and ...

An expert explains how the life-saving machines work and how people are trying to find solutions to the shortage Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Nina Shapiro is a physician writer who dispels health myths. These machines are not only complicated to build and procure, ...

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the health-care workers trying ...

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When Sabina Checketts holds her hand a certain way, the tiny scar on its back resembles a rocket ship. Checketts received the scar during the first few days of her life, during a tenuous struggle for ...